FAMST 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Spectrum Radio, Fairness Doctrine, Demagogue
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Radio as a centralizing force amid turmoil and reform. Detroit 1920s: melting pot for prosperity, then depression. Supports workers, but stirs anxieties about jews, bankers, aliens, and. Buys cbs airtime, escalating rhetoric, then cbs boots him. Coughlin continues an ad-hoc network of local stations. Nab self-regulation, 1940 stations must balance controversial speakers. Libera: radio too commercial (fear of big business) Concerns regarding demagogues and advertisers - mass manipulation. Radio goes to war with pearl harbor (dec. 7, 1941) 7th fleet: symbol of the us power in the pacific. War advertising council (wac) = promotion of womanpower and us savings. Women "do the job he left behind" [paper] Fcc chair james lawrence fly struggles with industry leaders. Nab "akin to a mackerel in the moonlight it both shines and stinks" First amendment: congress shall make now law . Abridging the freedom of speech or of the press . War as a justification - public interest, convenience, necessity.
