The quieted voice: The rise and demise of localism in American radio.(Critical essay)
Publication Date: 01-SEP-07
Publication Title: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
Format: Online
Author: Armstrong, John S.

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Hilliard, R. L, & Keith, M. C. (2005). The quieted voice: The rise and demise of localism in American radio. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 213 pages.

For the 8 decades that the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) and then the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have regulated broadcasting, localism has been a key component of the public interest standard. Like the public interest standard, localism is a sometimes elusive concept to which regulators have attached different meanings at different points in broadcast history. A version of localism--one that is dear to media reformers--prescribes...



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