How to Talk Back to Your Television Set

I found this book the other day & it reminded me of this course.

Here is an excerpt:

"...I fear that we have already reached the point in this country where the media, our greatest check on other accumulations of power, may themselves be beyond the reach of any other instituion: the Congress, the President, or the Federal Communications Commission, not to mention the governors, mayors, state legislators, and ciy councilmen. Congressional hearings are begun and then quietly dropped. Whenever the FCC stirs fitfully as if in wakefulness, the broadcasting industry scurries up the Hill for a congressional bludgeon. And the fact that roughly 60 percent of all campaign expenses go o radio and television time gives but a gilmmer of the power of broadcasting in the lives of Senators and Congressmen..." (p. 62)

You can read the whole thing for free HERE