Before Fox News: Right-Wing Broadcasting, Cold War America, and the Conservative Movement
Right-wing broadcasting was reborn when Reagan suspended the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, enabling the rise of Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News shortly thereafter.
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MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United States
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From Firing Line to The O’Reilly Factor
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesHow did political TV and radio move from honest intellectual combat to become a vast echo chamber? Heather Hendershot will answer this difficult question.
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Michael Lee: “The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMichael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States.
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From Taft to Trump: How Conservative Media Activists Won — and Lost — the GOP
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesNicole Hemmer will explain how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right -- and how in the era of Trump, they lost it.