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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... period , one of the more in- teresting came in written testimony to the Congress from W. G. Cowles , head of the Chicago - based Zenith Radio Corporation . In 1926 , Cowles viewed advertis- ing as a threat to national security . If ...
... period , one of the more in- teresting came in written testimony to the Congress from W. G. Cowles , head of the Chicago - based Zenith Radio Corporation . In 1926 , Cowles viewed advertis- ing as a threat to national security . If ...
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... period led to re- lentless attacks by varied 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 ...
... period led to re- lentless attacks by varied 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 ...
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... 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 unique space that became the site of much ...
... 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 unique space that became the site of much ...
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... period , noncommercial broadcasting in the United States was effectively smothered in the cradle . This was neither a simple nor an uncontroversial process . With the creation of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927 , the government ...
... period , noncommercial broadcasting in the United States was effectively smothered in the cradle . This was neither a simple nor an uncontroversial process . With the creation of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927 , the government ...
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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 |
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.
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.