At best, the choice of personnel produced serious and challenging views of a basic American problem. The prime failure of the reportis its curious inconclusiveness. It makes a case against the press with dignity and seriousness. When it comes to describing the remediesit ladles out great masses of confusion. Radio is not a newspaper any more than vaudeville.
Radio is a show.
A newscaster, like a female singer, is hired for his voice. He reads stuff dished up by one of the newspaper wire services. True, the networks often hire newspapermen to report from here and abroad, but this is secondary to the show business. It just shows how dumb these professors are to put radio in front of the newspaper in a study of the press. It would be as correct for my jury of saloonkeepers to put football ahead of anthropology and astronomy as educational features of the American university.