Radio Broadcast (May-Oct 1925)

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©CI 866 west's 5598 C RADIO BROADCAST Vol. 7 No. 5 r September, 1925 Is the Radio Newspaper Next? Newspaper Organizations Have Been Quick to Seize the Opportunity of Radio — How the News is Sent Ashore and Afloat — The Possibilities of the Tabloid Radio Newspaper By JAMES C. YOUNG. THE future of the press lies in the air. Radio represents the one channel of news expansion not already developed to the full. When Fort Sumter was fired on in 1861, the Pony Express rode full tilt for a whole week to carry the news to California. Even then the telegraph wire, linked from pole to pole between skirmishes with Indians, was advancing across the continent. This was the eighth wonder of the world, surpassing all other wonders in the descent of man — a tiny thread of copper carrying sound unmeasured distances. Then came the telephone. Its appearance was coincidental with the girdling of the globe by cable lines. But the last and greatest age of communication did not begin until three decades later, when crude instruments first feebly recorded wireless waves. The last ten years have served to improve radio to such an extent that man can instantly transmit his thoughts around the sphere. Meanwhile the newspaper has also developed until now it has become a permanent record of modern life. What is said and done the world over finds expression in this record. The total number of words sent daily by telephone, telegraph and cable, between newspapers everywhere, would test the average man's imagination. Radio, the newest agent of the press, bears but a small part of this burden. On busy days, the word traffic between Europe and America will rise to 100,000 words. When business is dull this total falls off to 50,000 or even less. But radio by no means is limited to the transmission of news between agents of the press. It is rapidly becoming a part of the press. We might call it an aerial edition and not be far in the wrong. More than fifty American newspapers send out bulletins at short intervals to the owners of radio sets both far and near, informing them of the latest decision of the British cabinet. That decision may not be half an hour old when some sheep herder in the backlands of Texas will learn that English labor has prevailed in its demands for better housing at state expense. Or the speeding waves of radio may convey word that Morocco is engaged in a new war. Even the gossip of Broadway and the last quotation on wheat are whisked around the world for all to hear. This aerial edition of the press, usually issued every thirty minutes by the newspapers participating, offers possibilities which excel those of the established editions published daily by the great metropolitan plants. The instant communication of important matters to the whole body of mankind is now possible. Any great event that transpires to-day must