The Daily Planet: A Critic on the Capitalist Culture Beat

Table of contents

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• The Daily Planet i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Introduction ix
• Part I - Popular Culture in Context 1
• Capitalist Culture and the Left 3
• Growing Up Is Hard to Do in Kidpix 13
• Is Educational Children's TV Possible? 23
• Paul Harvey and the Culture of Resentment 32
• Vietnam Grunts R Us 45
• Black Magic 72
• When Any Alien Looks Good 77
• Part II - Communication and the Public Interest 83
• The What and How of Public Broadcasting 85
• Public Television and the Public Sphere 99
• Access Cable TV as Electronic Public Space 121

• The Daily Planet i
• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Introduction ix
• Part I - Popular Culture in Context 1
• Capitalist Culture and the Left 3
• Growing Up Is Hard to Do in Kidpix 13
• Is Educational Children's TV Possible? 23
• Paul Harvey and the Culture of Resentment 32
• Vietnam Grunts R Us 45
• Black Magic 72
• When Any Alien Looks Good 77
• Part II - Communication and the Public Interest 83
• The What and How of Public Broadcasting 85
• Public Television and the Public Sphere 99
• Access Cable TV as Electronic Public Space 121
• Access Cable in Action 139
• The Missing Space on Satellite TV 154
• After the Fairness Doctrine 173
• Journalism and Public Life Seen through the “net” 185
• Beyond Apocalypse and Utopia in Cyberspace 201
• Part III - Independent and International Media 213
• Camcorder Confessions 215
• The Social-Issue Documentary Redux 225
• British Working-Class Films 231
• New Latin American Cinema Reconsidered 238
• Grassroots Video in Latin America 257
• Making Video with Brazilian Indians 274
• Memory and History in Sub-Saharan African Cinema 289
• Part IV - Living with the Media 299
• Why and How to Teach Media Literacy 301
• Does a Librarian Need Multiculturalism? 311
• Conversations in Latin America 319
• Doing Business with the Democrats 331
• Oh, Grow Up 334
• Selections from Interviews 337
• Permissions 345