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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... struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects : political , economic , international , educational , scientific , artistic , and religious . " In its zeal , Pacifica has risked the loss of its ...
... struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects : political , economic , international , educational , scientific , artistic , and religious . " In its zeal , Pacifica has risked the loss of its ...
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... struggle occurred over 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 ...
... struggle occurred over 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 ...
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... struggle for peace has had an illustri- ous career , spanning the millennia with its plea for dialogue , negotiation , and trust . That human disagreement and competition need not be physically concussive seems a truth obvious beyond ...
... struggle for peace has had an illustri- ous career , spanning the millennia with its plea for dialogue , negotiation , and trust . That human disagreement and competition need not be physically concussive seems a truth obvious beyond ...
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... struggles , epitomized by the ongoing contro- versy over KPFA's legendary public affairs chief , Elsa Knight Thompson , in turn led to a series of strikes and work stoppages and continuing institutional traumas throughout the early ...
... struggles , epitomized by the ongoing contro- versy over KPFA's legendary public affairs chief , Elsa Knight Thompson , in turn led to a series of strikes and work stoppages and continuing institutional traumas throughout the early ...
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... struggling with a facile identification with the revolutionary idealism of the New Left and the exuberant hedonism ... struggles over programming and airtime . The difficulties in locating common ground across the range of emerging ...
... struggling with a facile identification with the revolutionary idealism of the New Left and the exuberant hedonism ... struggles over programming and airtime . The difficulties in locating common ground across the range of emerging ...
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.