Word: broadcasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With its blessing on sponsored shortwave broadcasts, FCC slipped in a proviso that: "A licensee of an international broadcast station shall render only an international broadcast service which will . . . promote international good will, understanding and cooperation." In plain talk, this means the broadcasters will have to follow the line laid down by the State Department. To broadcasters who are already used to working hand & glove with the State Department, this proviso was just part of the game, but the sensitive press began to spit and fume...
Said the New York Times: "If our international broadcast programs are to be censored so that they shall not offend this or that foreign government, it is only a step to the argument that it is at least as desirable to censor our domestic programs so that they shall not offend our own Government...
...last murmur before giving in, the National Association of Broadcasters moved to have the regulations threshed out in public hearings. Meantime no short-waver signed up any advertising accounts, and one even so far endangered international good will as to broadcast to Germany in German how No. i U. S. Nazi, Bundfiihrer Fritz Kuhn, was arrested in Pennsylvania after an indictment charging grand larceny...
...Early in May, in a recorded broadcast, President Roosevelt reminded listeners to 150 U. S local stations: "Aside from some financial as sistance, in the form of less-than-cost posta rates, the Government has supported the press chiefly by protecting its freedom...
...cold feet about Pat Reed's story, showed it to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was "requested" not to broadcast it. Mad as hops was Pat Reed, who had expected to turn an honest penny with his radio yarn. Said he: "NBC is controlled by the Government anyway...