America's first network TV censor
Subtitle: the work of NBC's Stockton Helffrich
By: Robert Pondillo
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780809329182; 9780809385744
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : context and beginnings of TV censorship; title: Stockton who?; title: The early years; title: The NBC-TV program policies manual; title: Sin, sex, and TV censorship; title: Gagging the gags; title: TV violence; title: Postwar racial discourse; title: Of truth and toilet paper; title: Conclusion : a prescient vision.