Suddenly disappear. That conveys the thought that something so dramatic happened to society that the first amendment is gone. That should stir every American into finding out what this sentence is about. The first amendment is the backbone of American Democracy and should not ever be ignored.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which in 1970 established NPR to provide programming to the nation's noncommercial and educational radio stations, most of them situated at the low end of the FM radio dial.