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5 y- HITS AND MISSES -'To ask the minority (of listeners) to be satisfied with the time because it is a minority, as is now .generally the case, is only to indulge m intellectual Jin Crowism. If the discriminating listener is to enjoy emancipation the primary responsibility rests not on himself but on those who hold him m bondage. (Jack Gould in New York Tines, November 17,1946). Novelist Fannie Hurst commenting (November 7 1946) on daytime radio offerings said, "The advertisers hand has become the whip-nand. It is plastering palm against radio's face, squashing its features, pulling its hair, gouging its eyeballs, threatening to poke its front teeth down its throat . That sounds more like pro-wrestling than pro-radio. Now comes the U.S; Chamber of Commerce reporting, "In a socialist or dictatorial regime of abridged freedom of speech and press, of predetermined econom" action, and of prescribed education, these valuable thought and action are dammed up at the source. lessir h ° d - AZ. tool It reminds us of the Dutch boy with his thumb m the leak m the dyke. BROADCASTING MAGAZINE (Nov. 25) editorializes on the proposals of stations to limit advertising and raise program standards. As for the grandiose gesture toys -those idealists who believe advertisers will spend business dollars t reach a smattering of starry-eyed garret-dwellers—time will tell; time that isn’t sold.” That for the folks who live in the big house on the corne . *ti believe that much of our trouble comes from the circumstance that radio is so convenient and that it costs nothing to listen. As a result the listener often fails to appreciate the worth of what ho is getting and his demands become unreasonable”-■Vim. S. Paloy, CBS, Oct. <s2,1946. Tj hy isn’t your activity reported in this issue? Send news contributions now. Copy deadline for January issue is December 25. Send to: t-t . a . Enge 1, WHA, Madi s on, M s c ons in Edited by- H. A. Engel Radio Vi HA Madison, Tj is cons in December 2, 1946