Active Radio: Pacifica's Brash Experiment

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U of Minnesota Press, 1999 - 179 páginas
In a searing critique of the War on Drugs and other attempts to eradicate "getting high, " Lenson ventures outside the conventional genres of drug writing and looks at the drug debate from a lost, and often forbidden, point of view: the user's. Walking a fine line between the antidrug hysteria prevalent in our culture and an uncritical advocacy of drug use, he describes in provocative detail the experiences and dynamics of drugs of pleasure and desire.

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The Rise of Corporate Broadcasting
13
Lew Hills Passion and the Origins of Pacific
29
ListenerSponsored Radicalism on KPFA
41
The Development of the Pacifica Network
65
Free Speech Radio
93
WBAI and the Explosion of Live Radio
115
Beloved Community
135
Conclusions
145
Notes
151
Bibliography
163
Pacifica Programs
171
Index
175
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Página 8 - ... free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That, at any rate, is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.
Página 5 - The radio as it now operates among us is not free. Nor is it entitled to the protection of the First Amendment. It is not engaged in the task of enlarging and enriching human communication. It is engaged in making money.

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