[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Press neutrality. Or, er....... fairness.

Don’t you know?

:-)

[abb]

When FDR took over, in 1933, they took a shot at total government control of radio broadcasting.

See page 92 and 93.

http://books.google.com/books?id=WuY7t7Cr5GoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Telecommunications,+Mass+Media,+%26+Democracy+The+Battle+for+the+Control+of+U.S.+Broadcasting,+1928-1935&source=bl&ots=0uVYHw_8Za&sig=ZGvrbg7tLviqc29ZPhChOjR77ZQ&hl=en&ei=WWaaTbGHJcmdgQfp_qDJCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

Telecommunications, mass media, and democracy: the battle for the control of broadcasting, 1928-1935.
By Robert Waterman McChesney

“Ownership of the facilities is the crux of the matter. Whoever controls facilities is bound to control their uses.”

[abb]

http://www.h-net.org/~business/bhcweb/publications/BEHprint/v021/p0171-p0181.pdf

First, the reformers argued that the airwaves should be regarded as a public resource and broadcasting a public utility. By this reasoning, reformers argued that turning broadcasting over to a relative handful of private broadcaster so that they could satisfy selfish goals was a scandalous misuse of a public resource.

http://www.scripps.ohiou.edu/mediahistory/mhmjour2-2.htm

THE RADIO ACT OF 1927 AS A PRODUCT OF PROGRESSIVISM