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100	1		_aBrownell, Kathryn Cramer, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_a24/7 politics : _bcable television and the fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News / _cKathryn Cramer Brownell
246	3		_aTwenty-four/ seven
264		1	_aPrinceton, New Jersey : _bPrinceton University Press, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023
300			_a402 pages : _billustrations (black and white) ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aPolitics and society in modern America
520			_a"As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Yet over the next three decades, the expansion of a different technology, cable, changed all of this. 24/7 Politics tells the story of how the cable industry worked with political leaders to create an entirely new approach to television, one that tethered politics to profits and divided and distracted Americans by feeding their appetite for entertainment--frequently at the expense of fostering responsible citizenship. In this timely and provocative book, Kathryn Cramer Brownell argues that cable television itself is not to blame for today's rampant polarization and scandal politics--the intentional restructuring of television as a political institution is. She describes how cable innovations--from C-SPAN coverage of congressional debates in the 1980s to MTV's foray into presidential politics in the 1990s--took on network broadcasting using market forces, giving rise to a more decentralized media world. Brownell shows how cable became an unstoppable medium for political communication that prioritized cult followings and loyalty to individual brands, fundamentally reshaped party politics, and, in the process, sowed the seeds of democratic upheaval. 24/7 Politics reveals how cable TV created new possibilities for antiestablishment voices and opened a pathway to political prominence for seemingly unlikely figures like Donald Trump by playing to narrow audiences and cultivating division instead of common ground."-- _cPublisher's website.
650		0	_aTelevision and politics.
650		0	_aTelevision in politics.
650		0	_aCable television _xMoral and ethical aspects.
650		0	_aCable television _xPolitical aspects.
830		0	_aPolitics and society in modern America.
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