As Laura Linder asserts, increased concentration of media
ownership has resulted in the homogenization of public discourse.
Packaged, commercialized messages have replaced the personalized
and localized opinions necessary for the uninhibited marketplace of
ideas envisioned in the First Amendment. Narrowcast outlets such as
talk radio give vent to individual voices, but only to a limited,
predefined audience. The media have led a social shift toward
splintering and compartmentalization, away from pluralism and
consensus.
Public access television provides an alternative to this trend,
requiring active public participation in the process of developing
community-based programming through the dominant medium of
television. Today, more than 2,000 public access television centers
exist in the United States, producing more than 10,000 hours of
original, local programming every week. But public access
television remains underutilized, even as deregulation and growing
interest in other telecommunications delivery systems pose a
potential threat to the long-term viability of public access
television. In this comprehensive review of the background and
development of public access television, Linder offers all the
information needed to understand the theoretical and philosophical
underpinnings as well as the nuts and bolts of public access
television in the United States. Must reading for students and
scholars involved with mass media in the United States and
professionals in the television field.
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