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TELEVISION QUARTERLY...... Volume XXXV - Number 1

What’s Different from 2000?
Kathleen A. Frankovic, Director of Surveys for CBS News, describes new TV network election-night reporting techniques designed to correct the flaws plaguing the last Presidential election and calls for a national uniform poll-closing time.

Exit Polling: What’s the Use?
Steven S. Ross, Columbia Journalism School associate professor of professional practice, argues that exit polls are the last, best chance the media have to explain the results of candidates’ actions among specific voter groups and are far more accurate than pre-election polling.

Washington and “Indecency”: Regulation or Censorship?
Tack Nail, who has covered broadcasting in Washington and New York for 48 years for Broadcasting & Cable, Television Digest and Communications Daily, spotlights current efforts by Congress and the FCC to set limits in the wake of the Super Bowl and Howard Stern.

What’s So Funny?
Bernard M. Timberg, a television historian and media critic, examines the powerful effect of TV comedy on politics, arguing that the credibility of newscasters is being dimmed by that of comedy commentators.

Judy Woodruff: “The American People are Counting on Us”
Interviewed by Mort Silverstein on Television in America, she comments forcefully on partisan journalism.

Is U.S. Television Ready to Learn Español?
Humberto Delgado and Lorna Veraldi, who teach at Florida International University’s school of journalism and mass communication, emphasize the importance of Spanish-language television to the 40 million Hispanics in the U.S. – now over 13 percent of the population.

Japanese Television: How Different it Is!
Bruce Dunning, Asia bureau chief for CBS News, reveals much that is unknown about Japanese television, which is now facing its greatest challenge: going digital.

TV and the New York City Marathon
Greg Vitiello, a New York-based writer and editor who ran the Marathon six times, shows how television coverage has developed over the years to enhance this captivating annual event.

Alistair Cooke Remembered
Michael D. Murray, director of the School of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and recipient of Harvard’s Goldsmith Research Award for his study of Alistair Cooke’s writing, recollects a cherished personal relationship with Cooke.

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REVIEW AND COMMENT

Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times, by Bill Moyers, and
The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications, by Paul Starr. Reviewed by Bernard S. Redmont.

Casualty of War: The Bush Administration’s Assault on a Free Press, by David Dadge. Reviewed by Ralph Engelman.

Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Television, by Bob Edwards. Reviewed by Greg Vitiello.

Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture, by Heather Hendershot. Reviewed by Ron Simon.

Spy Television, by Wesley Britton. Reviewed by Paul Noble.

Crazy Like a FOX: The Inside Story of How Fox News Beat CNN, by Scott Collins. Reviewed by Michael J. Jordan.

The Fourth Network: How Fox Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television, by Daniel M. Kimmel. Reviewed by Jimmie L. Reeves.