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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... its zeal , Pacifica has risked the loss of its licenses , had its transmitters bombed , seen its personnel arrested and jailed , and made errors of judgment and taste . Yet its tumultuous path has significantly X PREFACE.
... its zeal , Pacifica has risked the loss of its licenses , had its transmitters bombed , seen its personnel arrested and jailed , and made errors of judgment and taste . Yet its tumultuous path has significantly X PREFACE.
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... licensing . Consider that approxi- mately one quarter of the broadcast licenses distributed by the secretary of com- merce between 1920 and 1925 were for noncommercial stations ; many university channels in particular offered their ...
... licensing . Consider that approxi- mately one quarter of the broadcast licenses distributed by the secretary of com- merce between 1920 and 1925 were for noncommercial stations ; many university channels in particular offered their ...
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... licenses . Some board members went so far as to consider complying with the FCC's request for loyalty oaths , an absolute anathema to al- most all of the staff . These internal struggles , epitomized by the ongoing contro- versy over ...
... licenses . Some board members went so far as to consider complying with the FCC's request for loyalty oaths , an absolute anathema to al- most all of the staff . These internal struggles , epitomized by the ongoing contro- versy over ...
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... licenses and keep some order in the chaos of rapid expansion . Between 1927 and 1934 , the government and the emerging " mass media " industry , led by the newly formed National Broadcasting Company ( formed in 1926 ) , jointly worked ...
... licenses and keep some order in the chaos of rapid expansion . Between 1927 and 1934 , the government and the emerging " mass media " industry , led by the newly formed National Broadcasting Company ( formed in 1926 ) , jointly worked ...
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... license to all those requesting one . Shipping companies as well as individual private operators applied for licenses , along with dozens of schools and universities where experiments in radiotelegraphy had been part of the physics ...
... license to all those requesting one . Shipping companies as well as individual private operators applied for licenses , along with dozens of schools and universities where experiments in radiotelegraphy had been part of the physics ...
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 |
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.
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