When is a Network Not a Network?

Video / 90 Min / Commerce & Culture
This is the ninth lecture in the Commerce & Culture Course
 
SYNOPSIS
A ten-lecture course presented by Paul Cantor, Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia, and a pioneer in literary criticism from an Austrian perspective. Having studied with Mises, he is working to counter the Marxist understanding of culture that dominates the humanities today.

Television as the ultimate test case of commercial culture. It suffered heavily from government regulation at first; its progress depended on deregulation from the federal government. National Networks vs. Cable TV. In defense of Rupert Murdoch and Fox TV (The Simpsons and The X-Files).