Our broadcasting system is often described as democratic and justified. If this is done, the broadcaster is accountable to the public and the public should have the final say on the radio operation. To what extent is this true in practice?
We could best describe our system involves a triangular relationship involving industry, the FCC and the public listen. The public is the foundation of the triangle.
The advent of radio, such amazing possibilities suggested that it was obliged to raise false hopes. Idealists have a shower with the industry’s lawyer’s perfection. More sober critics have faulted for not realizing the opportunities within their reach.
The audience listened as a whole has been grateful for the supply room revealed its existence too many decorative ornaments and some useful gadgets in the home.
That our system was to bring the perpetrators to be democratic, in theory, in any case, it is corroborated by some of the facts and reviewed. The airwaves belong to the people. Broadcasters are only temporary and conditional access to them.
The essence of our political theory in this country is a man of conscience is a private not a public affair, and that only their words and deeds will be open to the survey, the censorship and punishment. The idea is a decent, and it works. Just seeing totalitarian at work to see that once men have power over the minds, the power is will never used with restraint and prudence, but shall richly and brutally unspeakable results.
Freedom, like democracy, is a word so maimed by mouth reiterated that threatens to become shapeless and lacking in flavor as a piece of gum. This is partly due to the overall degradation of language in our time, and partly to the validity of the patent itself, deprived of freedom and the idea is to impose on all others. We give ourselves more easily in this fashion that is characteristic of the human species.
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