What does a gatekeeper in the tv industry do? How has their job
changed from the early days to today? A gatekeeper is someone who
alters the message to fit the format of a medium.

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Request for Question Clarification by czh-ga on 18 Oct 2005 18:37 PDT

Hello candygurl-ga,

Please elaborate on what you mean by "gatekeeper." My preliminary
search shows at least a couple of different usages. What do you know
about their role, now and earlier? Please give an example of "alters
the message to fit the format of a medium.

http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/bulletin/2001/summer/feature_5-fulltext.html
In The Gatekeeper: My 30 Years as a TV Censor, Schneider recounts his
career as vice president for policies and standards at ABC from 1960
to 1990, years of tumultuous change in the nation and on its TV
screens.

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http://www.jour.sc.edu/news/convergence/issue7.html
Conversations with Assignment Editors in a Television Newsroom on the
Affect of Convergence on their Role as Primary Gatekeeper

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http://energycommerce.house.gov/108/Hearings/07212004hearing1339/Cooper2121.htm
The policy of bribing broadcasters and cajoling cable operators into
treating consumers fairly and giving citizens new avenues for
expression has failed. The gatekeeper model of exclusive spectrum
licensing on which this country has relied for three-quarters of a
century is kaput. The digital transition in America has been botched
so badly that an entirely new approach should be tried.

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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/cat_digital_television.php
* Broadcast Flag is Not Narrow: There is no "narrow" way to implement
the broadcast flag scheme because it necessarily puts the FCC in the
role of gatekeeper, having to approve and certify every technology
that might carry DTV -- computers, cellphones, gameboys, etc.


I look forward to your clarification.

~ czh ~

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Clarification of Question by candygurl-ga on 19 Oct 2005 04:17 PDT

Gatekeeper- one who formats a message; adding to, editing, and or
arranging it to maximize it's accurate transmission from a sender to a
reciever.
For example a car commercial. A gatekeeper makes the message of the
car commerical more easier to understand for the reciever.