The view from Highway 1
Subtitle: essays on television
By: Michael J. Arlen.
Edition: 1st Syracuse University Press ed.
Series: The television series
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Television broadcasting -- United States.
Other titles: View from Highway One
Description: In this classic collection of essays, Arlen misses nothing: He discusses how we watch the violence on TV news, unmoved, while eating breakfast and screaming at family members over trivialities; whether the television news communicates information responsibly; and how hidden values are imparted to children by Sesame Street while the program ostensibly teaches them the alphabet.
Notes: "All the essays ... appeared originally in the New Yorker between September 1974 and December 1975"--T.p. verso.
Originally published: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976.