The Daily Planet is a long-awaited selection of Patricia Aufderheide¹s most important critical essays, updated and organized thematically to demonstrate the breadth of her thinking on media and film, public telecommunications policy, and contemporary society. The result is a pithy and provocative exploration of ³the culture of daily life under capitalism.² Check out Patricia Aufderheide¹s new book, The Daily Planet: A Critic on the Capitalist Culture Beat at: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/A/aufderheide_planet.html $19.95 paperback $49.95 hardcover 368 pages Available now! CONTENTS Introduction ix Part I. Popular Culture in Context Capitalist Culture and the Left 3 Growing Up Is Hard to Do in Kidpix 13 Is Educational Children's TV Possible? 23 Paul Harvey and the Culture of Resentment 32 Vietnam Grunts R Us 45 Black Magic 72 When Any Alien Looks Good 77 Part II. Communication and the Public Interest The What and How of Public Broadcasting 85 Public Television and the Public Sphere 99 Access Cable TV as Electronic Public Space 121 Access Cable in Action 139 The Missing Space on Satellite TV 154 After the Fairness Doctrine 173 Journalism and Public Life Seen through the "Net" 185 Beyond Apocalypse and Utopia in Cyberspace 201 Part III. Independent and International Media Camcorder Confessions 215 The Social-Issue Documentary Redux 225 British Working-Class Films 231 New Latin American Cinema Reconsidered 238 Grassroots Video in Latin America 257 Making Video with Brazilian Indians 274 Memory and History in Sub-Saharan African Cinema 289 Part IV. Living with the Media Why and How to Teach Media Literacy 301 Does a Librarian Need Multiculturalism? 311 Conversations in Latin America 319 Doing Business with the Democrats 331 Oh, Grow Up 334 Selections from Interviews 337 Permissions 345 Published by the University of Minnesota Press. Available online and at your local bookstore. ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]