New PDF release: What's Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting

By Heather Hendershot

ISBN-10: 0226326772

ISBN-13: 9780226326771

ISBN-10: 0226326780

ISBN-13: 9780226326788

The upward thrust of right-wing broadcasting throughout the chilly warfare has been ordinarily forgotten this present day. yet within the Fifties and ’60s you may activate your radio any time of the day and hear diatribes opposed to communism, civil rights, the United international locations, fluoridation, federal source of revenue tax, Social safeguard, or JFK, in addition to hosannas praising Barry Goldwater and Jesus Christ. part a century sooner than the increase of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, those broadcasters bucked the FCC’s public curiosity mandate and created an alternative universe of right-wing political insurance, anticommunist sermons, and pro-business bluster.

 

A energetic glance again at this formative period, What’s reasonable at the Air? charts the increase and fall of 4 of the main popular right-wing broadcasters: H. L. Hunt, Dan Smoot, Carl McIntire, and Billy James Hargis. by means of the Seventies, all 4 were hamstrung by means of the inner profit carrier, the FCC’s equity Doctrine, and the increase of a more beneficial conservative circulate. yet ahead of wasting their conflict for the airwaves, Heather Hendershot finds, they purveyed ideological notions that might finally triumph, making a effective brew of faith, politics, and commitment to free-market economics that prepared the ground for the increase of Ronald Reagan, the ethical Majority, Fox information, and the Tea Party.

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