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- Title
Defending Listeners' Rights: Labour and Media Reform in Postwar America.
- Authors
Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth
- Abstract
Historians have paid relatively little attention to labour's involvement in radio reform in the United States. Unions criticized the poor quality of programming and the lack of public service. They were also concerned about corporate control of radio and particularly about labour's lack of access. After briefly examining organized labour's initial efforts to reform radio, this paper focuses on the key role unions played in the postwar media reform movement, which advocated a listeners rights approach to broadcasting. This concept, along with a commitment to localism, diversity, and community involvement, was among the key ideas championed by media reformers in postwar America.
- Subjects
UNITED States; RADIO (Medium); MASS media; LABOR unions &; radio; RADIO audiences; MASS media &; business; RADIO broadcasting; COMMUNITY power; RADIO in community development; COMMUNICATION
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Communication, 2006, Vol 31, Issue 3, p499
- ISSN
0705-3657
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22230/cjc.2006v31n3a1759