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...Mackerel Note...
...mackerel cannot see or touch itself, thus has no idea what sort of creature it is" [TIME, June 4]. But if you'd ever swum around in a school of mackerel the way I have, taking notes, you'd know that each mackerel looks at the thousands of others and figures that he's pretty much like all his neighbors...
...mackerel cannot see or touch itself, thus has no idea what sort of creature...
...Moonlit Mackerel. When Franklin Roosevelt appointed Fly to the FCC chairmanship in 1939, FCC was a seven-man tangle of bickering members. Its job was to regulate radio, telegraph and telephone communications, but it was not having much success. Radio, as Fly saw it, was a newly rich business which had little idea of its public responsibility. It was, he decided, a "duopoly" dominated by two national networks (NBC and CBS), and Fly set out to break...
...struggle was bitter (he once paraphrased John Randolph, saying that radio management reminded him "of a dead mackerel in the moonlight which both shines and stinks," and management replied in kind). The fight ended with a blockbuster which the Supreme Court dropped on the industry in 1943, ruling that FCC had the power to enforce its regulations on the radio industry. The sum of these regulations was the freeing of the 900-odd U.S. stations from total network domination (TIME...