The Fragmented TV Nation

Shay Zeller's picture
By Shay Zeller on Monday, April 24, 2006.
listen: No audio currently available. Order on CD (pdf).

Seventy years ago today, the first unplanned television event was broadcast -- it was a fire in Camden, New Jersey. On day one of Turn Off Your TV Week, we'll look at the impact of some of the good and BAD programming we were raised on. Our guest is Profesor Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

We'll also hear what's real and not real about how Hollywood portrays Washington, DC, in a piece by producer Richard Paul. The story comes to us from PRX, The Public Radio Exchange.

Related News:

Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Apocalypse Jukebox

Monday, December 29, 2008
Inside the Stalin Archives

Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"

Share This Story:

Delicious DeliciousDigg Digg
Reddit RedditFacebook Facebook
Google GoogleYahoo Yahoo
NPR News
functionfile: linearguments
user warning: Duplicate entry '27054965' for key 1 query: statistics_exit INSERT INTO accesslog (title, path, url, hostname, uid, sid, timer, timestamp) values('The Fragmented TV Nation', 'node/10587', '', '38.103.63.58', 0, 'bif5vav1rpsvlltq78idr3lqr3', 851, 1231367507) in /var/www/htdocs-v5/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 172.
trigger_error/var/www/htdocs-v5/includes/database.mysql.inc: 172Duplicate entry '27054965' for key 1 query: statistics_exit INSERT INTO accesslog (title, path, url, hostname, uid, sid, timer, timestamp) values('The Fragmented TV Nation', 'node/10587', '', '38.103.63.58', 0, 'bif5vav1rpsvlltq78idr3lqr3', 851, 1231367507), 512
_db_query/var/www/htdocs-v5/includes/database.inc: 200INSERT INTO accesslog (title, path, url, hostname, uid, sid, timer, timestamp) values('The Fragmented TV Nation', 'node/10587', '', '38.103.63.58', 0, 'bif5vav1rpsvlltq78idr3lqr3', 851, 1231367507)
db_query/var/www/htdocs-v5/modules/statistics/statistics.module: 71INSERT INTO {accesslog} (title, path, url, hostname, uid, sid, timer, timestamp) values('%s', '%s', '%s', '%s', %d, '%s', %d, %d), The Fragmented TV Nation, node/10587, , 38.103.63.58, 0, bif5vav1rpsvlltq78idr3lqr3, 851.75, 1231367507
statistics_exit
call_user_func_array/var/www/htdocs-v5/includes/module.inc: 406statistics_exit,
module_invoke_all/var/www/htdocs-v5/includes/common.inc: 1287exit
drupal_page_footer/var/www/htdocs-v5/index.php: 37