The Television Code - Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry Jaramillo Deborah L.Pevná vazba
The Television Code - Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry Jaramillo Deborah L.Pevná vazba The broadcasting industry's trade association, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB),…
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The Television Code - Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry Jaramillo Deborah L.Pevná vazba
The broadcasting industry's trade association, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), sought to sanitize television content via its self-regulatory document, the Television Code. It mandated that broadcasters make time for religious programming and discouraged them from charging for it. The Code covered everything from the stories, images, and sounds of TV programs (no profanity, illicit sex and drinking, negative portrayals of family life and law enforcement officials, or irreverence for God and religion) to the allowable number of commercial minutes per hour of programming.
And it called for tasteful and accurate coverage of news, public events, and controversial issues.Using archival documents from the Federal Communications Commission, NBC, the NAB, and a television reformer, Senator William Benton, this book explores the run-up to the adoption of the 1952