With weekly sales of 20 million copies TV Guide has had the largest circulation of any magazine in the U.S. and has dealt for decades with contemporary social and political issues. Here is a star-studded tour of television history that also chronicle's the publication's more recent moves under the ownership of Rupert Murdoch. Photographs.
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Two academicians tune in to TV Guide and assess how well everyone's favorite boob-tube digest, which boasts the highest circulation in publishing history (about 20 million copies sold weekly), has tuned in to America. Grossvogel (Comparative Literature/Cornell) has done this sort of highbrow/pop-culture analysis before, in Dear Ann Landers (1987); here, he teams with Altschuler (American Studies/Cornell). The profs work well together. Their premise is obvious--that TV Guide mirrors the changing values of its readership--but it's fascinating nonetheless to see how the magazine's 40-year history perfectly conforms to that of the nation. Born in the Eisenhower/Father Knows Best years, TV Guide began with sanitized puff pieces on the stars (no divorce, alcohol, or sex). In the 60's and 70's, it grew self-consciously cynical, skewering celebrities with tough profiles by Dick Gehman and Edith Efron. The 1988 purchase by Rupert Murdoch turned back the clock, and now TV Guide offers a sexed-up version of its 50's cream-puff diet. Along with this history, the authors track the magazine's record on three social issues: feminism, civil rights, and treatment of the news. Despite founder Walter H. Annenberg's reputation as an archconservative, Grossvogel and Altschuler find TV Guide to be ``complex, occasionally confused, and even self-contradictory'' in its political positions. By dishing up celebrity gossip on a scholarly platter, this deserves the guilty-pleasure-of-the-month award. One of the better highbrow studies of pop Americana. (Eight photographs and three linecuts.) -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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On April 3, 1953, a small magazine, about 5 by 71/2 inches, with Lucy and Desi's new baby on the cover, appeared on newsstands in ten cities across the United States. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Merrill Panitt, United States, New York, Walter Annenberg, Edith Efron, News Watch, David Sendler, Neil Hickey, Miss America, Richard Nixon, Dwight Whitney, Mary Murphy, White House, Betty Friedan, Martin Luther King, World War, Cleveland Amory, Lucille Ball, Strike It Rich, Eric Sevareid, Jane Wyman, Leslie Raddatz, Los Angeles, Rupert Murdoch, Soviet Union New!
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Merrill Panitt, United States, New York, Walter Annenberg, Edith Efron, News Watch, David Sendler, Neil Hickey, Miss America, Richard Nixon, Dwight Whitney, Mary Murphy, White House, Betty Friedan, Martin Luther King, World War, Cleveland Amory, Lucille Ball, Strike It Rich, Eric Sevareid, Jane Wyman, Leslie Raddatz, Los Angeles, Rupert Murdoch, Soviet Union New!
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- Ronald Reagan (Childhoods of the Presidents) by Tamra Orr in Front Matter, and page 59
- The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan on page 136, and page 145
- Stokely Carmichael: The Story of Black Power (History of Civil Rights Series) by Jacqueline Johnson on page 103
- The Red and the Black by Marie De Stendhal on page 16
- Rosa Parks (People We Should Know) by Jonatha A. Brown on page 97
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