What's Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest - Couverture souple

Hendershot, Heather

 
9780226326788: What's Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest
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ISBN 10 : 0226326780 ISBN 13 : 9780226326788
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2011

Synopsis

The rise of right-wing broadcasting during the Cold War has been mostly forgotten today. But in the 1950s and ’60s you could turn on your radio any time of the day and listen to diatribes against communism, civil rights, the United Nations, fluoridation, federal income tax, Social Security, or JFK, as well as hosannas praising Barry Goldwater and Jesus Christ. Half a century before the rise of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, these broadcasters bucked the FCC’s public interest mandate and created an alternate universe of right-wing political coverage, anticommunist sermons, and pro-business bluster.

A lively look back at this formative era, What’s Fair on the Air? charts the rise and fall of four of the most prominent right-wing broadcasters: H. L. Hunt, Dan Smoot, Carl McIntire, and Billy James Hargis. By the 1970s, all four had been hamstrung by the Internal Revenue Service, the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine, and the rise of a more effective conservative movement. But before losing their battle for the airwaves, Heather Hendershot reveals, they purveyed ideological notions that would eventually triumph, creating a potent brew of religion, politics, and dedication to free-market economics that paved the way for the rise of Ronald Reagan, the Moral Majority, Fox News, and the Tea Party.

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À propos de l'auteur

Heather Hendershot is Cardiss Collins Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism at Northwestern University. Her books include What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest and Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226326780
ISBN 13 
9780226326788
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
270
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Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2011
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