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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... practice of selling airtime to advertisers to cover program- ming expenses had not yet spread to the majority of the nearly seven hundred ra- dio stations in the United States . In fact , Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover , to whom ...
... practice of selling airtime to advertisers to cover program- ming expenses had not yet spread to the majority of the nearly seven hundred ra- dio stations in the United States . In fact , Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover , to whom ...
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... practice . A station supported by audience subscriptions would be free from both network and advertising exi- gencies . This in turn might open the ether to controversial political issues and the creative imagination of individual ...
... practice . A station supported by audience subscriptions would be free from both network and advertising exi- gencies . This in turn might open the ether to controversial political issues and the creative imagination of individual ...
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... practices on free speech is hardly a historical anomaly — the Amer- ican Civil Liberties Union began as a pacifist organization in World War I , for in- stance . Modern pacifism as well as modern rights - centered liberalism both find ...
... practices on free speech is hardly a historical anomaly — the Amer- ican Civil Liberties Union began as a pacifist organization in World War I , for in- stance . Modern pacifism as well as modern rights - centered liberalism both find ...
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... from the political to the pornographic , as it were . The dy- namic practices of free speech on Pacifica challenge us to question not only the media's complicity in promoting the xenophobia leading to war but INTRODUCTION 5.
... from the political to the pornographic , as it were . The dy- namic practices of free speech on Pacifica challenge us to question not only the media's complicity in promoting the xenophobia leading to war but INTRODUCTION 5.
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... practice based on individual re- sponse to social evil . A second issue , noted by both critics and partisans alike , is that democracy in the United States is a uniquely unstable condition or " situation . " Individual per- sonality ...
... practice based on individual re- sponse to social evil . A second issue , noted by both critics and partisans alike , is that democracy in the United States is a uniquely unstable condition or " situation . " Individual per- sonality ...
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.