12th October 1939: American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) addresses America over a nationwide hook up in a speech on the Neutrality Bill.

Can Regulations Make Media More Democratic?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 17, 2015

In America’s Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform, Victor Pickard investigates why the American media has so few public interest regulations compared with other democratic nations. Pickard discusses the media policy battles in the 1940s, and why they matter today.

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