The Secret History of Right-Wing Radio
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The Great Polish Ham Boycot of the Sixties
Conservative broadcasters find Kennedy deeply alienating. They criticise everything from his duct of foreign policy, accuses him of selling out the communist to his domestic policy. The right wing radio a network, boosts amplifies the signal. Housewives all across the nation hold what they called card parties where they would take little slips of paper with slogans written on them and put them everywhere. And as their attacking is on the air waves, there teners, who tend to skew a middle aged suburban women are also very concerned by this. They start promoting an effort to set yo, through letter writing campaigns, direct action protests, to convince retail stores not to sell these offending imported goods.
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