The Secret History of Right-Wing Radio

A generation before the rise of talk radio and hosts like Rush Limbaugh, there was another wave of right-wing radio. But the reason why few remember them is that they were the target of a hugely successful government censorship campaign implemented by President John F. Kennedy using IRS audits and the FCC’s “Fairness Doctrine.” But as our host, Paul Matzko—whose book on the subject comes out next week—this isn’t just a question of history. Today, there is a growing, bi-partisan push for government regulation of the internet that resembles the way the State regulated radio in the 1960s and which could just as easily be hijacked in order to advance partisan interests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Secret History of Right-Wing Radio is an episode from Building Tomorrow by Libertarianism.org.

This episode is 49:15 long.

This episode was published on Jun 11, 2020.

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