Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1946)

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Heinl Radio News Service 11/27/46 « « • SCISSORS AND PASTE :: : Mr. Justice Jackson Shows Interest In FCC Program Scrutiny ( Drew PearsonJ Maybe Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson listened too much to the radio in his spare time at the Nuernberg trials. Anyway, Jackson threw out a hint during argument of a radio case last week that he doesn’t agree with diehard FCC Commissioner E. K. Jett that radio stations have no need to improve their Drograms. Attorney Bill Dempsey, son of the Governor of New Mexico, was arguing for WOKO. He pointed out that "if every broadcaster who had ever made a mis-representation to the FCC and whose license had subsequently been renewed were now to be taken off the air, it would mean a great gap in the air waves". "Isn’t that an argument for some drastic action?" Jackson shot back. Dempsey hastily changed the subject. Note: Commissioner Jett now believes it is no business of the FCC what kind of trip a radio station serves up to the public. David Warfield Likes The Radio ( S. J. Woolf in '’New York Times") David Warfield, now 80 years old, famous for his character¬ ization of "The Music Master" no longer goes to the theatre. Nor does he attend many movies, which, he says, are not much more than animated photographs which will never supplant reality. He does, however, listen to the radio. "There’s one fine thing about that", he says. "Itfs as easy to turn off as it is to turn on. " Tired of Government Interference ( "Editor and publisher The small newspaper publishers of this country prefer that government keep its nose out of their business. Only 1,500 weekly and small daily publishers have bothered to reply to the inquiring letter which the Senate Small Business Com¬ mittee sent to about 10,600 of them. That is a pretty fair indica¬ tion of how they feel toward the intended investigation. And we know for a fact that not all of those 1,500 cooperated with the request for information, which included a question as to how radio had af¬ fected their business. Some of them stated plainly the publishers wished to be left alone. 13