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ROBINSON FLAYS RADIO MONOPOLY
Domination of radio by one group portends "the greatest danger to the fundamentals of American republican government”, Federal Radio Commissioner Ira E. Robinson declared in a speech July 3rd before the Institute for Education by Radio, meeting in connection with the National Education Association, at Columbus, 0.
Asserting that no one group must ever dominate radio, the Commissioner declared that it "cannot be gainsaid that a monopoly of radio is now insistently claimed by a group, and that its power and influence is so subtle and effective as to portend the greatest danger to the fundamentals of American republican government.” He said that "no greater issue presents itself to the citizenry.”
Commercial ownership and operation of radio stations presents the major problem in the use of radio for real educational purposes, Commissioner Robinson declared, admonishing the American people not to "misuse or fritter away” these new facilities. That radio has educational worth, he declared, goes without saying.
"For radio is but the human voice at long range, and may be the voice of an instructor, whether school teacher, preacher, or statesman. One good lesson from a single instructor may reach millions”, he said.
Declaring that radio is intended for a higher use than that now made for it, Judge Robinson said that already the listeners "are becoming sick of the overdose of commercial advertis¬ ing given them hourly. Auctioneering speeches, sales talks, price quoting, and the like, have become so prevalent that the very excess of the same will do good in reminding the people of radio’s real province and worth. "
Judge Robinson advocated the imposition of licensee fees upon users of the ether, to help defray the cost of administering radio. The law, in any event, he declared, should be so amended as to require "a direct return to the public, one stipulated in the law, for the license which is granted by them, and he advocated that each licensee be required to give the use of his facilities for regular daily educational programs under Government auspices.
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