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Shortly after the fall of Indonesia's New Order government, the country's public radio network began limited broadcasts of a program intended to augment the midwifery skills of the biomedically trained "skilled birthing attendants," called bidan. This radio series was focused on educating rural health care providers in an efficient, modern way, reflecting the country's history of Jakarta-centered nation-building through didactic mass media. After what appeared to be relatively promising trials, the national Ministry of Health let the program languish and never brought it to full implementation. This article investigates the bidan radio series as a case study not only in public health education, but as a representation of the country's shifting narratives of nationalist modernity, and the role of mass media in reproducing them. We argue that the program depended on the medium itself as the locus of its message, and therewith national radio's historic discourse of unifying progress. Based on an ethnographic collaboration between medical and media anthropologists, this ethnohistoric research interrogates childbirth as a disputed field of cultural knowledge production, and an exemplar of broadcast media and biomedical nationalism's entangled trajectories.

Examines the struggle between TV program producers & the three major US TV networks over control of syndication rights to prime-time programming, drawing on a case study of the Federal Communication Commission's 1983 decision to repeal the Financial Interest & Syndication Rules (FISR) related to prime-time programming. It is concluded that a capitalist class, not public or government officials, shapes & controls the mass media. This class is shown to have employed the assistance of Presidents Ronald Reagan in 1983 & George Bush in the late 1980s in a way that reveals the interlocking nature of the US power elite. The networks ultimately won repeal of the FISR rules as part of a hegemonic project to combine an emergent accumulation strategy with a new international strategy. Political-economic media theory & neo-Marxist theories of the capitalist state explain the dynamics of these struggles & demonstrate the close relationship between the state & certain sectors of the capitalist class. D. Ryfe

Contents: Foreword; Public participation, by Gilbert Seldes; Moral aspects of television, by Charles A. Siepmann; Free discussion and public taste, by Ithiel de Sola Pool; A researcher looks at television, by Paul F. Lazarsfeld. Testimony before the U.S. federal communications commission, Dec. 10-11, 1959.

Programming scarcity that characterized the broadcast era, or what this article refers to as constraint, served very different goals. Often intertwined, these goals ranged from the formation of an ideologically coherent national public, to the protection of economic self-interest, to the explicit promotion of products and messages. They were deployed rather differently in the commercial American and state/public European spaces of television. The article explores a number of assumptions regarding the institution and medium of television that have persisted from the broadcast era into our own and that might well, given the very different structures of contemporary television, be repositioned. It outlines the contours of that repositioning, sketching the implications for some of our theoretical and methodological defaults. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright The American Academy of Political and Social Science.]

Examines whether station characteristics, market size and demographics, and competitive conditions affect quality of programs, and argues for government regulation; based on a survey of 112 commercial broadcast stations.

Analyzes televised election broadcasts aired by the Conservative and Labour parties during the 1992 and 1997 elections, issue dominance, and the trend towards increased negativity and personalization.