American broadcasting and the first amendment /
Lucas A. Power
- California : University of California Press, 1987
- x, 293 p.
The setting, 1. -- A different medium, 11. -- Dr. Brinkley and the peep show image, 22. -- The supreme court speaks : NBC and red lion, 31. -- Licensing, 49. -- The development of the communications act, 52. -- Giving away the pot gold, 68. -- The nonrenewal threat, 85. -- Supervision, 105. -- Using and abusing the fairness doctrine, 108. -- The nixon assault on the networks, 121. -- Helping the president, 142. -- Maintaining cultural moralitym, 162. -- The present and the future, 193. -- The modern rationale for broadcast regulation, 197. -- To repeat the past : Cable, 216