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"I haven't read a more stimulating and enlightening book about television. My mind still burns under its influence."
—Bill Moyers
"[The Sponsor] is the most incisive and well-written study to date of the economic structure and ideological impact of modern broadcasting."
—The Nation
"The best critique of television since Newton Minow's æwasteland' blast of the early 1960s."
—Library Journal
Erik Barnouw (1908-2001) was professor of dramatic arts at Columbia University, and in 1978 was named chief of the Library of Congress's Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Among his many books are Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film and the award-winning three-volume History of Broadcasting in the United States.
Deirdre Boyle is core faculty in the Graduate Media Studies Program at New School University. A video historian, media critic, consultant, and psychotherapist, she is the author of Subject to Change: Guerilla Television Revisited.
