Down the Tube: An Inside Account of the Failure of American Television
- ISBN-10
- 0306873079
- ISBN-13
- 9780306873072
- Series
- Down the Tube
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985-05
- Authors
- William F. Baker, George Dessart
Description
Baker and Dessart show how the United States, almost alone among the nations of the world, surrendered virtually the entire command of its public airwaves to the commercial sector, rendering television little more than a chillingly effective conveyance of demographic groups to major advertisers.
