What's Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest

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Heather Hendershot

What's Fair on the Air?

Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest

Heather Hendershot

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University of Chicago Press
30 September 2011

Radio; Media studies; Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies; Radio & television industry

The rise of right-wing broadcasting during the Cold War has been mostly forgotten today. But in the 1950s and ’60s you could turn on your radio any time of the day and listen to diatribes against communism, civil rights, the United Nations, fluoridation, federal income tax, Social Security, or JFK, as well as hosannas praising Barry Goldwater and Jesus Christ. Half a century before the rise of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, these broadcasters bucked the FCC’s public interest mandate and created an alternate universe of right-wing political coverage, anticommunist sermons, and pro-business bluster. A lively look back at this formative era, What’s Fair on the Air? charts the rise and fall of four of the most prominent right-wing broadcasters: H. L. Hunt, Dan Smoot, Carl McIntire, and Billy James Hargis. By the 1970s, all four had been hamstrung by the Internal Revenue Service, the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine, and the rise of a more effective conservative movement. But before losing their battle for the airwaves, Heather Hendershot reveals, they purveyed ideological notions that would eventually triumph, creating a potent brew of religion, politics, and dedication to free-market economics that paved the way for the rise of Ronald Reagan, the Moral Majority, Fox News, and the Tea Party.

By: Heather Hendershot
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 24mm, Width: 16mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780226326771
ISBN 10: 0226326772
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 30 September 2011
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Heather Hendershot is professor in the Department of Media Studies at Queens College and in the Film Program at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. She is the author of Saturday Morning Censors: Television Regulation before the V-Chip and Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture.

Reviews for What's Fair on the Air?: Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest

Heather Hendershot's history of America's 'primordial version of Fox News'--the overlooked, forgotten, and sometimes actively erased far-right broadcasts of the 1960s--does more than bring an essential piece in the puzzle of modern conservatism to light. What's Fair on the Air? challenges us to rethink widely-accepted notions of free speech, fundamentalism, and modernity. That's a big task; fortunately we have Hendershot's brilliant--and often funny--book to help us begin. --Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family and Sweet Heaven When I Die <br><br>--Jeff Sharlet