Air Wars: The Fight to Reclaim Public Broadcasting

Abstract

Introduction 1. Trouble in Three Rivers City: WQED Debt Comes Due 2. Corporate Media's Threat to Democracy 3. The Broken Promise o f PBS 4. The Battle to Reform WQED 5. Old Wine in New Bottles: Reproducing the Station Culture 6. What Am I Bid? Stripping Assets at WQED 7. Round Two, the Battle over WQEX 8. The Killing of WQEX and the Final Showdown 9. Other Fronts: Putting the Public into Public TV 10. Public Broadcasting in the Public Interest: Toward a Democratic Alternative Appendix: Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting Notes References Acknowledgments Index