Television, cultural studies, and the "blind spot" debate in critical communications research / Mike Budd and Clay Steinman -- Popular television and commercial culture : beyond political economy / John Fiske -- "Dallas" refigured / Marsha F. Cassidy -- Flatulent conceptions : "the young ones," inoculation, and emesis / Murray Smith -- Collective blindness and American television / Robert J. Thompson -- "He's everything you're not ..." : a semiological analysis of "Cheers" / Arthur Asa Berger -- And justice for all : the messages behind "real" courtroom dramas / Wende Vyborney Dumble -- The ratings "sweeps" and how they make news / Meg Moritz -- The graphication and personification of television news / Herbert Zettle -- Representations of race in network news coverage of South Africa / Wendy Kozol -- Propaganda techniques in documentary film and television : AIM vs. PBS / Martin J. Medhurst -- TV's world of sports : presenting and playing the game / Jimmie L. Reeves -- Invisible fictions : television audiences, paedocracy, pleasure / John Hartley

1. Television broadcasting