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Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States

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In this interdisciplinary study of the laws and policies associated with commercial radio and television, Thomas Streeter reverses the usual take on broadcasting and markets by showing that government regulation creates rather than intervenes in the market. Analyzing the processes by which commercial media are organized, Streeter asks how it is possible to take the practice of broadcasting--the reproduction of disembodied sounds and pictures for dissemination to vast unseen audiences--and constitute it as something that can ...

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Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States 1996, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226777221

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Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States 1996, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226777214

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