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Carnegie’s Lemon? The Birth of NPR

In: The History and Politics of Public Radio

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  • James T. Bennett

    (George Mason University)

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Chapter 3 examines the role of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television, a blue-ribbon establishmentarian panel whose 1967 report was the template for the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. The Carnegie Commission's mixture of high-flown rhetoric and confident assertion of the necessity of federal support won the day over a disorganized and not terribly passionate opposition. Radio wasn't even an afterthought to the Carnegie commissioners, but savvy and determined activists, centered around the University of Michigan's campus radio station, achieved a landmark and rather surreptitious triumph with the late appending of “and radio” to wherever “television” appeared in the Johnson administration's draft legislation. They were aided by a hastily compiled study titled The Hidden Medium: A Status Report on Educational Radio in the United States, which had concluded that government subsidy was essential to the maintenance, not to mention flourishing, of the genre.

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  • James T. Bennett, 2021. "Carnegie’s Lemon? The Birth of NPR," Studies in Public Choice, in: The History and Politics of Public Radio, chapter 0, pages 39-55, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stpchp:978-3-030-80019-2_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-80019-2_4
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