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Placing Extreme Television Media in Their Historical and Economic Context

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Extreme media are a normal and predictable outcome of the media marketplace in the United States. Using historical and market-based explanations for the development of extreme television media, Taylor places extreme media in their proper context. Taylor shows how extreme media fill a niche and are valuable to the political system in the United States. Establishing that their rise is not happenstance or accidental, Taylor creates a firm foundation to explore the empirical realities for people who consume these media. Taylor closes this chapter with a roadmap for the book and a summary of his general findings.

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Taylor, J.B. (2017). Placing Extreme Television Media in Their Historical and Economic Context. In: Extreme Media and American Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41183-5_1

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