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Contents
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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Page 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.
Page 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.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Active Radio: Pacifica's Brash Experiment Volume 1 of Commerce and mass culture series |
| Author | Jeff Land |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | U of Minnesota Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0816631573, 9780816631575 |
| Length | 179 pages |
| Subjects | › › Performing Arts / Radio / History & Criticism Technology & Engineering / Radio |
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