The Man Who Destroyed Television

The Man Who Destroyed TelevisionFred Silverman has devoured the goose that laid the golden egg. The man who led the way in transforming American television from a social force into a social disease is about to pay the price. And so are the other men and women who have conspired with Silverman and the rest of the network moguls to force-feed more than 200,000,000 Americans a daily diet of generally wretched entertainment on that three-headed monster--CBS, ABC and NBC.Twenty-five years ago, networ...