NAEB Newsletter (Sept 1940)

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NAE3 My time is about up....we’d like to have some discussion from the floor G . ..i see a number of writers here who no doubt can add from their personal experience, much that I have forgotten to mention. In closing there are two cardinal points I’d like to leave with you,...first of that any radio program, must be a pleasureable experience; ?5=jsit‘'oras*fi»,s;?r.“ssa a Mj: i 1 ‘ihSsrs.^?« m a* script writer re-evaluated his position and his importance«... Instead of thinking of himself as an amateur writer who. with kind of a deprecating tone of voice, is doing scripts for an educational station, and only waiting for the big break when Lord and Thomas or some other agency will assign him or her a strip across the board on ell three networks...he must begin to think of himself as a professional writer... after all we make our living at it don’t we...a profassjona! writer who can satisfy himself by doihg his Job better than it has ever been done before Q ..a writer who is playing and must play an ever increasing part in doing a real service for thousands and thousands of listeners who, if they only know it, are wanting Just such material, such inform¬ ation, such programs.,.programs with imagination, sincerity, "stuff”, and it’s a job, that the writer, since he is the source of all material going on the air, must bring these attributes too....he must have a backgrounds..in literature, art, music, journalism, world affairs, psychology...the educational script writer, and this wouldn’t hurt many of our commercial writers, either, must first of all be an educated man ->