Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Moments of Danger and Challenges to the "Selective Tradition" in U.S. Communication History, by Janice Peck -- Chapter 2 Politics as Patriotism: Advertising & Consumer Activism during World War II, by Inger L. Stole -- Chapter 3 The Revolt against Radio: Postwar Media Criticism & the Struggle for Broadcast Reform, by Victor Pickard -- Chapter 4 "Our Union Is Not For Sale": The Postwar Struggle for Workplace Control in the American Newspaper Industry, by James F. Tracy -- Chapter 5 "Things Will Never Be the Same Around Here": How See It Now Shaped Television News Reporting, by Dinah Zeiger -- Chapter 6 "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale": Lessons of the Broadcast Blacklist, by Carol A. Stabile -- Chapter 7 Foreign Correspondents, Passports, and McCarthyism, by Edward Alwood -- Chapter 8 "Love that AFL-CIO": Organized Labor's Use of Television, 1950-1970, by Nathan Godfried -- Chapter 9 The Postwar "TV Problem" and the Formation of U.S. Public Television, by Laurie Ouellette -- Chapter 10 Lockouts, Protests, and Scabs: A Critical Assessment of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Strike, by Bonnie Brennen -- Chapter 11 The Reporters' Rebellion: The Chicago Journalism Review 1968-1975, by Steve Macek -- Chapter 12 Oprah Winfrey and the Politics of Race in Late Twentieth Century America, by Janice Peck -- Chapter 13 Public Radio, This American Life, and the Neoliberal Turn, by Jason Loviglio -- Chapter 14 "Sticking it to the man": Neoliberalism: Corporate Media & Strategies of Resistance in the 21st Century, by Deepa Kumar -- Chapter 15 Contesting Democratic Communications: The Case of Current TV, by James F. Hamilton -- Chapter 16 Critical Media Literacy: Critiquing Corporate Media with Radical Production, by Bettina Fabos -- About the Authors -- Index.