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24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News Audiobook, by Kathryn Cramer Brownell Play Audiobook Sample

24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News Audiobook

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Read By: Patricia Shade Publisher: Kalorama Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 8.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: August 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781696612746

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

22

Longest Chapter Length:

53:33 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

07:14 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

34:23 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

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.

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 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.

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About Kathryn Cramer Brownell

Kathryn Cramer Brownell is assistant professor of history at Purdue University. She is the author of several articles on entertainment and politics and recently coauthored an editorial column on John F. Kennedy’s political legacy for Reuters.