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Conversation (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). "Should New York City Be Abolished?" With Clifton Fadiman, Marc Connelly, Henry Morgan and Charles Siepmann...
Conversation (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). "Basic Fears," discussed by Clifton Fadiman, Bennett Cerf, Charles Siepmann, Dr. John P. Spiegel...
...book, Radio, Television, and Society (Oxford University Press; $4.75), British-born Educator Charles A. Siepmann disposed of radio's old argument that it is just giving the public what it wants. Wrote Siepmann: "[That] theory makes as much sense as if a large department store were to clear its shelves of all commodities except the best-selling lines." If popular acceptance of programs is the measure of good radio, said Siepmann, then all radio is good, because Russians, Britons, Danes and Swedes listen to their radios as much as Americans...
...miracle" of science, Siepmann believes, has given radio a second chance for health. The discovery of FM opens channels for 3,500 to 5,000 new stations, which should force improvement through competition alone. To merit this second chance, says he, radio should try some voluntary reforms. Then Siepmann suggests a potion of his own concocting: a national listeners' advisory council representing the U.S. audience. Its job: minding radio's manners, reporting the industry's shortcomings...
Professor Siepmann's brew was one cure-all that was not likely to get a radio sponsor...