{"product_id":"the-decline-and-fall-of-public-service-broadcasting","title":"The Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublic broadcasting is the single most important social, cultural, and journalistic institution of the twentieth century. In the past fifteen years it has been assaulted politically, ideologically, technologically, and is everywhere in retreat. This book considers the idea of public service broadcasting and examines in detail the assault made upon it with specific emphasis on global developments and events in the United Kingdom, Japan, Europe, and the United States.\n\u003cbr\u003e Michael Tracey argues that public service broadcasting  has been a vital and democratically significant institution  now  experiencing a terminal decline brought about by\n\u003cbr\u003echanges in political, economic, and technological circumstances.  Based on years of research and extensive contact with leading public broadcasters around the world the author examines the idea of public service broadcasting and how for the most part it has  vainly (and often ineffectually)  struggled  to survive in recent years .  The author concludes that public broadcasting is, as was once said of Weimar is a corpse on leave. Its likely disappearance constitutes an\n\u003cbr\u003eindication of a real and deep-seated crisis within liberal democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46059448795374,"sku":"9780198159254","price":318.65,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198159254.jpg?v=1736499826","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/the-decline-and-fall-of-public-service-broadcasting","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}