Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest

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the history of communication Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945–60 Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf Last Rights: Revisiting Four Theories of the Press Edited by John C. Nerone “We Called Each Other Comrade”: Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers Allen Ruff WCFL, Chicago’s Voice of Labor, 1926–78 Nathan Godfried Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty Alex Carey; edited by Andrew Lohrey Media, Market, and Democracy in China: Between the Party Line and the Bottom Line Yuezhi Zhao Print Culture in a Diverse America Edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand The Newspaper Indian: Native American Identity in the Press, 1820–90 John M. Coward E. W. Scripps and the Business of Newspapers Gerald J. Baldasty Picturing the Past: Media, History, and Photography Edited by Bonnie Brennen and Hanno Hardt Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times Robert W. McChesney Silencing the Opposition: Antinuclear Movements and the Media in the Cold War Andrew Rojecki Citizen Critics: Literary Public Spheres Rosa A. Eberly Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers David Paul Nord From Yahweh to Yahoo!: The Religious Roots of the Secular Press Doug Underwood The Struggle for Control of Global Communication: The Formative Century Jill Hills Fanatics and Fire-eaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter Jr. Media Power in Central America Rick Rockwell and Noreene Janus The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing in American Life Michael Dawson How Free Can the Press Be? Randall P. Bezanson Cultural Politics and the Mass Media: Alaska Native Voices Patrick J. Daley and Beverly A. James Journalism in the Movies Matthew C. Ehrlich Democracy, Inc.: The Press and Law in the Corporate Rationalization of the Public Sphere David S. Allen Investigated Reporting: Muckrakers, Regulators, and the Struggle over Television Documentary Chad Raphael Women Making News: Gender and the Women’s Periodical Press in Britain Michelle Tusan Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s Inger Stole Speech Rights in America: The First Amendment, Democracy, and the Media Laura Stein Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps’s Chicago Experiment Duane C. S. Stoltzfus Waves of Opposition: The Struggle for Democratic Radio, 1933–58 Elizabeth Fones-Wolf Prologue to a Farce: Democracy and Communication in America Mark Lloyd Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike Deepa Kumar The Scripps Newspapers Go to War, 1914–1918 Dale Zacher Telecommunications and Empire Jill Hills Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression David Welky Normative Theories of the Media Clifford G. Christians, ἀ eodore Glasser, Denis McQuail, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Robert A. White Radio’s Hidden Voice: The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United States Hugh Richard Slotten Muting Israeli Democracy: How Media and Cultural Policy Undermine Free Expression Amit M. Schejter Key Concepts in Critical Cultural Studies Edited by Linda Steiner and Clifford Christians Refiguring Mass Communication: A History Peter Simonson Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest Matthew C. Ehrlich matthew c. ehrlich is a professor of journalism at the ­ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Journalism in the Movies. The University of Illinois Press is a founding member of the Association of American University Presses. Composed in 10/1 3.5 Adobe Minion Pro with FF Meta display at the University of Illinois Press Manufactured by Sheridan Books, Inc. University of Illinois Press 1325 South Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820-6903 www.press.uillinois.edu ...