AintNothingButaFreeLunch,Baby!.pptVIP

Ain’t Nothing But a Free Lunch, Baby! Dallas Smythe Came to radical p-e slowly – life experiences (Depression, work at US Dept. of Labor-tracking media industry, labor, trade unions) Became first economist at FCC 1948-Inst. Of Communication Research at Univ Illinois (first PhD program in Comm). Smythe’s early academic research Need for public broadcasting Political economy of the electronic media Audience commodity With McCarthyism in US, Smythe returned to native CA and set up program in comm. At U Regina 1974 SFUworked with Melody, pub’d Dependency Road, died in 1992 Smythe contrasted admin