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The Radio Right - How a Band of Broadcasters Took on the Federal Government and Built the Modern Conservative Movement (Hardcover)
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The Radio Right - How a Band of Broadcasters Took on the Federal Government and Built the Modern Conservative Movement (Hardcover)
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In the past few years, trust in traditional media has reached new
lows. Many Americans disbelieve what they hear from the "mainstream
media," and have turned to getting information from media echo
chambers which are reflective of a single party or ideology. In
this book, Paul Matzko reveals that this is not the first such
moment in modern American history. The Radio Right tells the story
of the 1960s far Right, who were frustrated by what they perceived
to be liberal bias in the national media, particularly the media's
sycophantic relationship with the John F. Kennedy administration.
These people turned for news and commentary to a resurgent form of
ultra-conservative mass media: radio. As networks shifted their
resources to television, radio increasingly became the preserve of
cash-strapped, independent station owners who were willing to air
the hundreds of new right-wing programs that sprang up in the late
1950s and 1960s. By the early 1960s, millions of Americans listened
each week to conservative broadcasters, the most prominent of which
were clergy or lay broadcasters from across the religious spectrum,
including Carl McIntire, Billy James Hargis, and Clarence Manion.
Though divided by theology, these speakers were united by their
distrust of political and theological liberalism and their
antipathy towards JFK. The political influence of the new Radio
Right quickly became apparent as the broadcasters attacked the
Kennedy administration's policies and encouraged grassroots
conservative activism on a massive scale. Matzko relates how, by
1963, Kennedy was so alarmed by the rise of the Radio Right that he
ordered the Internal Revenue Service and Federal Communications
Commission to target conservative broadcasters with tax audits and
enhanced regulatory scrutiny via the Fairness Doctrine. Right-wing
broadcasters lost hundreds of stations and millions of listeners.
Not until the deregulation of the airwaves under the Carter and
Reagan administrations would right-wing radio regain its former
prominence. The Radio Right provides the essential pre-history for
the last four decades of conservative activism, as well as the
historical context for current issues of political bias and
censorship in the media.
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