| Title: | Public Service Broadcasting as a Modern Project: A Case Study of Early Public-Affairs Television in Canada; |
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| Authors and Corporations: | |
| In: | Canadian Journal of Communication, 26, 2001, 3, p. 351-366 |
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
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| Media Type: | Article, E-Article |
| Physical Description: | 351-366 |
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| ISSN: |
0705-3657
1499-6642 |
| DOI: | 10.22230/cjc.2001v26n3a1233 |
| published in: | Canadian Journal of Communication |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | |
| Collection: | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (CrossRef) |
<jats:p> This study of public-affairs programs suggests that Canadian television hardly functioned as a modern disciplinary apparatus in its initial years. In the early 1950s, Canadian broadcasters sought to stake out and strategize a "middle ground" between U.K. (information) and U.S. (entertainment) TV, featuring public-affairs programs that Canadians would actually choose to watch in a more or less competitive North American broadcast market. However, newsmagazines and traditional long-form documentaries consistently violated the early pedagogical protocols of Canadian television and thus call into question conventional notions of public-service broadcasting.These shows and the controversies they generated should make us rethink Eurocentric theories about public-service broadcasting as a quintessential disciplinary machine. </jats:p> |