ABSTRACT

The Carnegie Commission on Educational Television published a 1967 report with recommendations that became the foundation for American Public Television policy. Commission researchers visited ninety-two existing educational television stations and seven systems of public television abroad to inform the document. The Commissioners attempted to create an entertaining and educational alternative to commercial broadcasting in the United States in a moment of legislative opportunity during President Johnson’s Great Society program. This essay explores the process of creating that system, simultaneously reliant on and distant from comparative media research. This tension may stem from a kind of American exceptionalism that has arguably haunted public television since its inception. Through textual analyses of archival material, as well as the Carnegie Commission report on educational television, the article traces lost lessons from public television systems abroad, as well as ambivalent rhetoric concerning diversity.

摘要

卡内基教育电视委员会发布了1967年的报告，其中提出了一些建议，这些建议成为美国公共电视政策的基础。欧盟委员会的研究人员访问了九十二个现有的教育电视台和七个国外的公共电视系统，以为该文件提供信息。在约翰逊总统大社会计划期间的立法机会中，委员们试图在美国创造一种娱乐性和教育性的替代商业广播的方案。本文探讨了建立该系统的过程，同时依赖和远离比较媒体研究。这种紧张可能源于一种美国例外论，自成立以来一直困扰着公共电视台。通过对档案资料的文字分析，