Active Radio: Pacifica's Brash ExperimentU 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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... declared Pacifica's mission to be : In Radio broadcasting operations to engage in any activity that shall contribute to a lasting understanding between na- tions and between the individuals of all nations , races 2 INTRODUCTION.
... declared Pacifica's mission to be : In Radio broadcasting operations to engage in any activity that shall contribute to a lasting understanding between na- tions and between the individuals of all nations , races 2 INTRODUCTION.
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... government forces . One particularly incendiary broad- cast in 1962 was WBAI's public expose of the FBI's illegal internal surveillance program , the first time the agency's spying activities had INTRODUCTION 3 Introduction.
... government forces . One particularly incendiary broad- cast in 1962 was WBAI's public expose of the FBI's illegal internal surveillance program , the first time the agency's spying activities had INTRODUCTION 3 Introduction.
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Pacifica's Brash Experiment Jeff Land. program , the first time the agency's spying activities had been publicly revealed . This interview with a former agent elicited immediate response from the bureau , which threatened key personnel ...
Pacifica's Brash Experiment Jeff Land. program , the first time the agency's spying activities had been publicly revealed . This interview with a former agent elicited immediate response from the bureau , which threatened key personnel ...
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... activities . Pacifica's history in this period well bears this out . The contests over access to the microphone at different Pacifica stations also usefully open questions of the nature and flexibility of the " public sphere , " a ...
... activities . Pacifica's history in this period well bears this out . The contests over access to the microphone at different Pacifica stations also usefully open questions of the nature and flexibility of the " public sphere , " a ...
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... activity , shutting down all nonmilitary radio use of radiotelegraphy . Immediately after the war , thousands of amateurs , released from wartime restrictions , renewed their licenses and began experiment- ing with a variety of novel ...
... activity , shutting down all nonmilitary radio use of radiotelegraphy . Immediately after the war , thousands of amateurs , released from wartime restrictions , renewed their licenses and began experiment- ing with a variety of novel ...
Contenido
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 |
163 | |
Pacifica Programs | 171 |
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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.