Reviews
"Readers of Journalism History... are urged to read this book." -- Alexander Russo, Journalism History, "Baughman tells a familiar story -- commerce crushes cultural aspiration -- but he adds fresh and fascinating details from behind the scenes at the television networks. And he avoid nostalgia for a 'golden age' of television that never was." -- Philadelphia Inquirer, Though not the first study of this period, this is surely one of the more readable and insightful - and well documented., The period that Baughman covers is the 'golden age of television'-the much mourned era of dramas by Paddy Chayefsky and documentaries by Edward R. Murrow... Although Baughman is scrupulously respectful of the achievements of Weaver, Murrow, and other heroes of fifties television, he never misses a chance to offer up contrarian material., Baughman tells a familiar story-commerce crushes cultural aspiration-but he adds fresh and fascinating details from behind the scenes at the television networks. And he avoid nostalgia for a 'golden age' of television that never was., "" Same Time, Same Station is a scholarly pleasure to explore and should be in every university library where media studies are taken seriously."", The period that Baughman covers is the 'golden age of television'--the much mourned era of dramas by Paddy Chayefsky and documentaries by Edward R. Murrow... Although Baughman is scrupulously respectful of the achievements of Weaver, Murrow, and other heroes of fifties television, he never misses a chance to offer up contrarian material., College-level collections strong in media history will find this an attractive addition... accessible even to lay readers., "Though not the first study of this period, this is surely one of the more readable and insightful -- and well documented." -- Chris Sterling, Communication Booknotes Quarterly, "The most thorough, well-researched, and broad-ranging history of television we have to date... Baughman's achievement is a major one." -- Business History Review, Though not the first study of this period, this is surely one of the more readable and insightful -- and well documented., "College-level collections strong in media history will find this an attractive addition... accessible even to lay readers." -- Midwest Book Review, The most thorough, well-researched, and broad-ranging history of television we have to date... Baughman's achievement is a major one., A thought-provoking book... Does a masterful job of engaging the academic discourse and media theory., Baughman's study is interesting from a policy point of view... it is also evocative as a spin through the index will show., The period that Baughman covers is the 'golden age of television' -- the much mourned era of dramas by Paddy Chayefsky and documentaries by Edward R. Murrow... Although Baughman is scrupulously respectful of the achievements of Weaver, Murrow, and other heroes of fifties television, he never misses a chance to offer up contrarian material., "A thought-provoking book... Does a masterful job of engaging the academic discourse and media theory." -- Andrew J. Falk, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, "The period that Baughman covers is the "golden age of television" -- the much mourned era of dramas by Paddy Chayefsky and documentaries by Edward R. Murrow... Although Baughman is scrupulously respectful of the achievements of Weaver, Murrow, and other heroes of fifties television, he never misses a chance to offer up contrarian material." -- Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, Baughman tells a familiar story -- commerce crushes cultural aspiration -- but he adds fresh and fascinating details from behind the scenes at the television networks. And he avoid nostalgia for a 'golden age' of television that never was., Baughman tells a familiar story--commerce crushes cultural aspiration--but he adds fresh and fascinating details from behind the scenes at the television networks. And he avoid nostalgia for a 'golden age' of television that never was., Same Time, Same Station is a scholarly pleasure to explore and should be in every university library where media studies are taken seriously.
