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Defending listeners’ rights: Labor and media reform in postwar America
Journal Article
Elizabeth Fones-WolfCanadian Journal of Communication
31(3):
(
2006
)
:
499-518
Abstract
After briefly examining organized labor’s initial efforts to reform radio, this article focuses on the key role unions played in the post-war media reform movement, which advocated a “listeners’ rights” approach to broadcasting. The author also argues that the post-war advocacy efforts of labor unions played a key role in establishing the principles of diversity, localism, and community service as defining components of U.S. communications policy.
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