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TELEVISION QUARTERLY...... Volume XXXV - Numbers 3 & 4
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With a Nod to Cosby, the Black Family Channel Steps Up to the Plate
By Mary Ann Watson, who notes that the 24-hour digital cable network, now available in 30 million homes, is dedicated to making a difference. |
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Saving Nat “King” Cole
By Bob Pondillo, a media historian who suggests an intriguing reason NBC never gave up on Cole’s doomed 1957 TV variety show. |
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Time to Stand Up—When PBS Buckles on War Documentary, Frontline Sings “Courage”
By documentary historian Tom Mascaro, who examines the effect of the FCC’s ambiguity about “indecency” on realistic soldier talk. |
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The Fake Trial of Michael Jackson
An argument for permitting cameras in the courtroom by communications consultant Gary Gumpert and attorney/journalism professor Susan J. Drucker. |
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Ted Koppel Speaks Out
The back story of ABC’s plan to replace him with David Letterman and other revelations in an interview with Morton Silverstein. |
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Mayhem and Disaster in Studio 6B
By Alvin Cooperman, who describes his first day on his first TV job as production manager for Milton Berle: He flooded the set! |
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I Knew Dan Rather When
By John Baker, Rather’s first television director, who recalls the CBS anchor’s Texas TV debut. |
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Memories of the First Super Bowl on TV
By Richard G. Carter, on the 1967 contest between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs, when TV viewers totaled 70 million and a 30-second ad cost just $42,000. |
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The News Scoop to End All News Scoops By Don Blair. How NBC Radio beat everybody else, including all of television, in reporting the Iran-hostage-release story. |
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REVIEW AND COMMENT
Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power by Christine Acham - Reviewed by Howard A. Myrick Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All by Tom Fenton Changing Channels: The Civil Rights Case That Transformed Television by Kay Mills - Reviewed by Bernard S. Redmont A Public Betrayed: An Inside Look at Japanese Media Atrocities and Their Warning to the West by Adam Gamble and Takesato Watanabe - Reviewed by Bruce Dunning Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture edited by Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette - Reviewed by David Marc |
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