The assault on educational licenses by conservative religious broadcasters has its roots in the Reagan Revolution, when then-FCC Chairman Mark Fowler pledged “to take deregulation to the limits of existing law.” Fowler’s FCC abolished the guidelines for local, news and public-affairs, and nonentertainment programming and dropped almost all public interest standards in deference to the […]
Jerold Starr
Jerold M. Starr is executive director of Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting and the author of Air Wars: The Fight to Reclaim Public Broadcasting.
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