| Description |
ix, 201 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-197) and index. |
| Contents |
Broadcast policy making research : participants, structures and influences -- The study of congressional hearings and their impact -- Early concerns over media violence : parents protest Betty Boop and the Ether Bogeyman -- The beginning of forty years of investigation : television, the preparatory school for juvenile delinquency -- Newton Minow and Senator Thomas Dodd : responding to citizen efforts to clean up the vast wasteland -- The Kennedy assassination and the search for the cause of violence -- The National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence hearings -- Senator John Pastore and the Surgeon General : the blind leading the blindfolded? -- The Surgeon General's report by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Television & Social Behavior -- Citizen advocacy and the FCC : attempts to regulate television violence through Section 315 and the fairness doctrine -- In search of a causal link between television and behavior -- Sex and violence on television : parts I & II -- Television violence and the courts : don't blame me, television made me do it! -- NBC and the Moral Majority : a holy war over violence on television -- Removing the shackles of anticompetitive legislation -- Aftermath of the antitrust exemption : "Happy violence" and a concern youth violence -- Janet Reno vs. Beavis and Butthead : congressional debate over the renewal of the Television improvement act -- The V-chip and program ratings system : Congress passes the Telecommunications act of 1996. |
| Subject |
Violence on television.
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Violence on television. |
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Television broadcasting policy -- United States.
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Television broadcasting policy. |
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United States. |
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Television and children -- United States.
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Television and children. |
| ISBN |
0761804773 paper alkaline paper |
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0761804765 cloth alkaline paper |
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