Word: courtsmanship
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...freewheeling forum draws many protests as well as thousands of subscribers (the stations use no commercials). The complaints piled up, and when the Federal Communications Commission sat last week to decide whether to grant or renew the licenses of the various Pacifica stations, there was an air of supreme courtsmanship about the judgment. The FCC supported Pacifica and granted the licenses, saying that if it were to throw Pacifica off the air because some people were offended, the Bill of Rights would be violated and, moreover, "only the wholly" inoffensive, the bland, could gain access to the radio microphone...
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