Censored : the private life of the movie (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Censored : the private life of the movie
Date:
1930
Publisher:
New York : Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, Incorporated
Volume:
Censored : the private life of the movie
Leaf #:
000235
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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THE PLAY'S THE THING publican party, criticized over the air one policy of that party, and a station tied up with the broadcasting station promptly advised him that there would be no further time for him. As a matter of fact, the air is pre-censored by the government. There are only a few wave lengths possible, and the Radio Commission has sole power to license broadcasting stations. We need hardly point out that the most powerful stations are not in the hands of antiMethodist, anti-Republican or any rebellious groups. The Radio Corporation and the General Electric Company rule the air. Not one of a hundred patrons of art, beauty, free speech or easy living, but corporations. Responsible to stockholders. If you bought Radio stock at par, you can rest content. If you objected to the Nicaraguan invasion, you'll have to object at home. You can't put it on the air. Now this censorship was not dictated by a $2,500 a year petty politician clinging to an old, outworn statute, but by one of the greatest corporations in the world. Thus we find our great corporate bodies assuming the same hypocritical attitude toward life as Censor 185