Active Radio: Pacifica's Brash ExperimentIn 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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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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Pasajes populares
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.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Active Radio: Pacifica's Brash Experiment Volumen1 de Commerce and mass culture series |
| Autor | Jeff Land |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | U of Minnesota Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0816631573, 9780816631575 |
| Largo | 179 páginas |
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