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What's fair on the air? Cold War right-wing broadcasting and the public interest

Title
What's fair on the air? [electronic resource] : Cold War right-wing broadcasting and the public interest / Heather Hendershot.
Author
Hendershot, Heather.
Publication
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.

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Description
1 online resource (x, 260 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
What's fair on the air? (Online)
Alternative Title
What's fair on the air? (Online)
Subject
  • Hunt, H. L
  • Hargis, Billy James, 1925-2004
  • Smoot, Dan
  • McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002
  • Right-wing extremists > United States
  • Radio in politics > United States
  • Mass media and propaganda > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Right-wing media vs. cold war America: "lace, luncheons, and frying pans" collapse into a "nightmare of raw violence and brutality" -- "A strong reek of the not-quite-crackpot": H. L. Hunt, right-wing radio's "constructive" conservative -- Right-wing broadcasting's supreme individualist: Dan Smoot and the tactics of constitutional conservatism -- God's angriest man: Carl McIntire, neoevangelicalism, and the long-lingering fundamentalist fires -- A story of "epic proportions": the battle between the FCC and WXUR -- Everything old is new again: Billy James Hargis, extremist tactics, and the politics of image -- Conclusion: from Birchers to birthers?.
LCCN
2010052461
OCLC
ssj0000542567
Author
Hendershot, Heather.
Title
What's fair on the air? [electronic resource] : Cold War right-wing broadcasting and the public interest / Heather Hendershot.
Imprint
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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