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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

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.”


18 posted on 04/04/2011 6:01:28 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

They’re doing it again, right now.

Is anything I’m saying not making sense to you?


23 posted on 04/27/2011 6:49:17 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing ( Net Neutrality - I say a lot of unneutral things.)
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