The TV Guide TV Book: 40 Years of the All-Time Greatest : Television Facts， Fads， Hits， and History

ISBN: 9780060969141

定价: 33.00

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~l[[hile we were doing the research for this book--reading every page of the more
VV than 2???000 issues published since Day One??? wading through the room of floor-to-
. v v ceiling file cabinets stuffed to overflowing with familiar and unique photo
images--one piece of information repeated itself and rose above the rest: There has
never been anything like TV Guide. No other publication has ever dominated its area of
concentration so completely and so successfully as this one has. Not Sports Illustrated???
not Popular Mechanics??? not Cosmopolitan or Vogue or the National Enquirer or Time or
Prevention??? not even National Geographic.
Here s the test that proves it: Name another mass-audience magazine about televi-
sion??? with local listings and feature articles??? that can be found at the newsstand you fre-
quent or the supermarket you shop at. You can t. There isn t one. And those slim???
uuderdetailed Sunday-supplement listings booklets are distant cousins??? poor relations???
trying to get by on gilt by association.
For 40 years??? without fail??? TV Guide has been the world s most popular magazine
about the world s most popular entertainment-and-information medium. The two were
made for??? and grew with and helped nurture??? each other` Playing a delicate balancing
game--like rolling across a high wire on a tricycle--TV Guide has been television s
peppiest cheerleader??? its most acute critic??? and its chief Boswell. It is a difficult role that
it has played with distinction.
Merely to skim the pages tells the whole story. Writers as diverse and opinionated as
Margaret Mead??? Joe McGinnis??? S. J. Perehnan??? Arthur Schlesinger??? Jr.??? Garrison Keillor???
David Bradley??? Katharine Hepburn??? Dr. Ruth Westheimel??? Isaac Asimov??? Peter
Bogdanovich??? Stephen King??? and President Gerald Ford have provided articles for TV
Guide. Erich Segal and William E Buckley??? Jr.??? contributed short stories to it. Betty Friedan
examined the woman s image on TV. Gloria Steinem told \"Why I Consider Cagney and
Lacy the best show on TW Joyce Carol Oates wrote in praise of Hill Street Blues.