Radio as an Agency of National Unity

men of all races, creeds, beliefs, and conditions. It has jumped the obstacle of educational unreadiness and speaks to all men everywhere. It gets into places and into minds that have not yet been reached by print or any other kind of public communication. In fact, for the first time in history, we have a way for people to speak to people, leaders to leaders, and world leaders to a world following. Between the great broadcasting networks and the rest of the world there goes constantly a stream of world messages. In this country, about 20,000,000 words on 17,000 different programs are broadcast every day. These millions of words are the common property of millions of people, ready for them to hear at the turn of a dial. They become the common knowledge, the common possession of those who hear them, and wherever they are heard their general effect is to break down provincialism and narrowness and promote understanding

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