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"Air Wars tells how a grassroots movement of concerned citizens were able to overcome enormous institutional influence in their quest for public accountability." "Jerold Starr exposes the political and commercial pressures that made strange bedfellows of the top officials of public broadcasting, the Democratic Party establishment, Pat Robertson and the Christian Coalition, home-shopping and "infomall" king Lowell "Bud" Paxson, and billionaire right-wing publisher/philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife.". "What began as a bitterly contested local struggle that disturbed the serenity of Mister…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2001Temple University Press · 338 pages · 9781566399135
- Paperback · English · 2001Beacon Press · 352 pages · 9780807042113
- Hardcover · English · 2000Beacon Press · 338 pages · 9780807042106
Freedom of speechPressure groupsPublic broadcastingRadio broadcasting, united states