In this chapter, they discuss the concept of 'broadcast democracy' from the middle part of the 20th century until about 1985. They explore the start of broadcast television from radio, the introduction of the first local stations, and the initial impact of the medium. The chapter also mentions the challenges in determining what content was on television back then and questions whether the FCC studied the content people were actually seeing.
What was media like? How has media changed? In this episode, we talk to Princeton Professor Markus Prior about the architecture of public media, over the period of what he calls "broadcast democracy," and in the period we're living within today. How does that architecture affect the politics that is possible?