Overview
Glenn Altschuler and David grossvogel have reconstructed the history of TV Guide, using dozens of interviews and close readings of thousands of articles to literally take readers inside the publication. The result is a detailed picture of a magazine that as it attempted to define itself, both reflected and shaped political and social reality.Throughout each decade of its forty-year history, TV Guide has dealt with contemporary social and political issues. "A fascinating excursion into the rise and fall of television as seen through an analysis of the rise and fall of TV Guide."
With weekly sales of 20 million copies TV Guide has had the largest circulation of any magazine in the U.S. and has dealt for decades with contemporary social and political issues. Here is a star-studded tour of television history that also chronicle's the publication's more recent moves under the ownership of Rupert Murdoch. Photographs.
Synopsis
Glenn Altschuler and David grossvogel have reconstructed the history of TV Guide, using dozens of interviews and close readings of thousands of articles to literally take readers inside the publication. The result is a detailed picture of a magazine that as it attempted to define itself, both reflected and shaped political and social reality.
Throughout each decade of its forty-year history, TV Guide has dealt with contemporary social and political issues. "A fascinating excursion into the rise and fall of television as seen through an analysis of the rise and fall of TV Guide."