Public Disinterest: Information Commons Dismantled

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Date Written:  2010-12-14
Publisher:  Toward Freedom
Year Published:  2010
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX12349

Seventy-five years after the Federal Radio Commission declared there was no room on the public airwaves for “propaganda stations” and denied a license renewal to a station that attacked Jews and law enforcement agencies, the airwaves are filled with both propaganda and venom. Today the airwaves, stripped of commons rules, feed hatred.

Subject Headings

• Broadcasting
• Broadcasting History
• Commons, The
• Information Economy/Society
• Information Transmission
• Mass Communications
• Post Office
• Postal Service
• Privatization
• Public Access
• Public Interest
• Radio
• Radio History