Freedom Over The Airwaves

Author : Hamish Ross
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1781594546
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom in the Air written by Hamish Ross and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2007-11-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Deals with a little-known aspect of the war . . . alongside the moving story of one man’s relationship with a very special animal.”—Sqn Ldr Paul Scott, Spirit of the Air This biography tells of the life of Václav Robert Bozděch, a Czech airman who escaped from the Nazi invasion, fought with the French and finally arrived in Britain to fly as an air-gunner with the RAF during World War II. He returned to his homeland after World War II but escaped back to the UK again when the communists gained control. Again he joined the RAF and rose to the rank of Warrant Officer. The unique part of this is that from his time in France, throughout World War II and until halfway through his second tour with the RAF, Bozděch was inseparable from his Alsatian dog, Antis, who became famous and was awarded a dog equivalent to the VC. Antis flew with his owner on many bomber raids, became the squadron mascot and was officially a serving RAF dog. He played an amazing part in the second escape from the Czech communist regime, when Bozděch was lucky to make it over the border to the US zone in Germany. “The main hero of the book is not Bozděch himself, but his Alsatian, Antis . . . This book makes clear the extent of wartime and post-war suffering endured by Czechs and others fulfilling their roles in the overall search for freedom.”—Aircraft Owner & Pilot “This absorbing account of flying in WWII is based on the inseparable bond between man and dog. It is a moving story with humor and sadness. A Great Read that is Highly Recommended.”—Firetrench

Author : Jacques Semelin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943271078
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom Over the Airwaves written by Jacques Semelin and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on the relationship between communications and nonviolent resistance captures a new understanding of the events that led ultimately to the fall of the authoritarian system in communist Central and Eastern Europe in 1989. In particular, it analyzes history-making acts of resistance and the movements that propelled them in Budapest in 1956, Prague in 1968, Gdansk in 1980 and East Berlin in 1989, in their own historical continuum. As we evaluate each crisis in relation to the others, we find that beyond cultural and national differences among the countries of the Soviet sphere, the knowledge of how to develop resistance was built up in a little over three generations -- a know-how that tied together means of opposition with means of media and communication. Non-provocative, nonviolent methods of action came to supersede uncontrolled forms of violence, and even the mere temptation of armed struggle. From 1968 to 1989, the empowerment of civil resistance movements in Central Europe was witnessed--a phenomenon that strengthened the re-emergence and rebuilding of "civil society." In a new Afterword penned for the English translation, Howard Barrell extends this evaluation to encompass the role of social media and digital technology in more recent and potential resistance struggles. This preeminent study offers a rare addition to understanding the transformation of half a continent.

Author : Barbara Dianne Savage
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807848043
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broadcasting Freedom written by Barbara Dianne Savage and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells how Blacks used radio

Author : Benjamin S. Lambeth
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833040537
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air Power Against Terror: America's Conduct of Operation Enduring Freedom written by Benjamin S. Lambeth and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2001-12-12 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terrorist attacks of 9/11 plunged the United States into a determined counteroffensive against Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network. This report details the initial U.S. military response to those attacks, namely, the destruction of al Qaeda?s terrorist infrastructure and the removal of the ruling Taliban regime in Afghanistan. The author emphasizes several distinctive achievements in this war, including the use of precision air-delivered weapons that were effective irrespective of weather, the first combat use of Predator unmanned aerial vehicles armed with Hellfire missiles, and the integrated employment of high-altitude drones and other air- and space-based sensors that gave CENTCOM unprecedented round-the-clock awareness of enemy activity.

Author : Louise M. Benjamin
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809327195
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom of the Air and the Public Interest written by Louise M. Benjamin and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and definitive study of freedom of expression rights in electronic media from the 1920s through the mid-1930s, Louise M. Benjamin' s Freedom of the Air and the Public Interest: First Amendment Rights in Broadcasting to 1935 examines the evolution of free speech rights in early radio. Drawing on primary resources from sixteen archives plus contemporary secondary sources, Benjamin analyzes interactions among the players involved and argues that First Amendment rights in radio evolved in the 1920s and 1930s through the interaction of many entities having social, political, or economic interests in radio. She shows how free speech and First Amendment rights were defined and perceived up to 1935. Focusing on the evolution of various electronic media rights, Benjamin looks at censorship, speakers' rights of access to the medium, broadcasters' rights to use radio as they desired, and listeners' rights to receive information via the airwaves. With many interested parties involved, conflict was inevitable, resulting in the establishment of industry policies and government legislation-- particularly the Radio Act of 1927. Further debate led to the Communications Act of 1934, which has provided the regulatory framework for broadcasting for over sixty years. Controversies caused by new technology today continue to rage over virtually the same rights and issues that Benjamin deals with.

Author : Harri Englund
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253005434
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and African Airwaves written by Harri Englund and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Rights and African Airwaves focuses on Nkhani Zam'maboma, a popular Chichewa news bulletin broadcast on Malawi’s public radio. The program often takes authorities to task and questions much of the human rights rhetoric that comes from international organizations. Highlighting obligation and mutual dependence, the program expresses, in popular idioms and local narrative forms, grievances and injustices that are closest to Malawi’s impoverished public. Harri Englund reveals broadcasters’ everyday struggles with state-sponsored biases and a listening public with strong views and a critical ear. This fresh look at African-language media shows how Africans effectively confront inequality, exploitation, and poverty.

Author : Margaret A. Blanchard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195363736
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Sparks written by Margaret A. Blanchard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-05-07 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The governmental pledge to the American people is found in the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Written more than two hundred years ago, these words now protect a wide range of expressive activity. A broad-gauged discussion of freedom of expression in America, this book begins by studying the period after the Civil War and Reconstruction when new and unsettling ideas appeared with great regularity on the American scene. So many of these ideas were floating around during this period that the nation's leaders often joined forces to repress aberrant notions. In response to such suppression, individuals seeking to better their lives through the expression of new ideas began to demand their rights to speak, write, and associate together to advance their points of view. Blanchard traces this contest for control through the Watergate scandal of the 1970s and the Reagan and early Bush administrations. Blanchard presents a lively discussion of freedom of speech ranging from questions of national security to those of public morality, from loyalty during times of national stress to the right to preach on a public street corner. Including examinations of controversies involving the press, the national government, the Supreme Court, and civil liberties and civil rights concerns, Revolutionary Sparks presents a strong case for the right of Americans to speak their minds and to have access to knowledge necessary for informed self-government.

Author : Patricia L. Dooley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440843406
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom of Speech written by Patricia L. Dooley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how freedom of speech is reflected in pop culture by looking at numerous examples of films, websites, television shows, and songs that have touched on—and impacted—this issue. It is easy to overlook the importance of freedom of speech in our modern world, where it often seems "anything goes." In actuality, freedom of speech issues are still highly relevant in the 21st century, even if our cultural and social contexts now allow many forms of expression that were unacceptable in previous eras. This book focuses on how freedom of speech is reflected in pop culture by looking at the films, websites, television shows, and songs that have touched on—and impacted—this issue. It examines specific examples of freedom of speech issues within everything from print media to music, theater, photography, film, television, sports, video games, and social media and demonstrates that pop culture sometimes contributes to the expansion of freedom of speech.

Author : Jo Glanville
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780857021557
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radio Redux written by Jo Glanville and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Index on Censorship magazine is available for purchase as an individual volume. We can't do without radio. However many new forms of mass communication are invented, the grandmother of them all remains indispensable. From Peru to Jordan, it's radio journalists who are often the first, and the last, to defy censorship and push the boundaries. As modern technology multiplies radio's reach, Index examines the medium and its messengers. Alexei Venediktov gives an exclusive interview on the secret of radio station Ekho Moskvy's survival - one of the last bastions of free speech in Russia; Joe Queenan reveals why he has no time for talk radio in the US and Shirazuddin Siddiqi on the programme the Taliban couldn't ban. Radio Redux, focuses on the impact of the original broadcast media. Despite the explosion in new forms of communication, radio remains on the front line in free speech. From the shock jocks of the US to community radio in Mexico, Index on Censorship takes a close listen to battles on the airwaves. PLUS Richard Norton-Taylor on the pursuit of secrecy; Marge Berer on a full-frontal cover-up; an exclusive extract from Javad Mahzadeh's acclaimed novel set during the Iran-Iraq war and Martin Rowson's Stripsearch. Index on Censorship is an award-winning magazine, devoted to protecting and promoting free expression. International in outlook, outspoken in comment, Index on Censorship reports on free expression violations around the world, publishes banned writing and shines a light on vital free expression issues through original, challenging and intelligent commentary and analysis, publishing some of the world's finest writers.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1348 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom of the Press written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: