Deciding What We Watch: Taste, Decency and Media Ethics in the UK and the USA - Hardcover

Shaw, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198159374 ISBN 13: 9780198159377

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1999

Synopsis

This book considers the different constraints (in the law, cultural customs, and self-regulation) affecting broadcasters on both sides of the Atlantic and the means by which they have responded to them. The book describes, with examples, the operations of compliance regulations and standard controls. It also explores the moral basis and history of such regulation as it has until now been applied to major issues of taste and decency.

About this title

About the Author:

Colin Don Shaw is a former broadcasting executive with the BBC and the Independent Broadcasting Authority and is a visiting scholar at Duke University, North Carolina

Review:

`this probing and penetrating volume offers a balanced view of the differences between US and British boradcasters' preferences and performances in serving the public's and the nation's interests ... Extensive in its coverage, this insightful book will help readers understand US broadcasting -
particularly as it is compared with another Western system.'
R Cathcart, Choice, Humanities, December 1999

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0198159374
• ISBN 13: 9780198159377
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200