But no one is stepping forward yet to seize this opportunity. We should grasp such openings. It's a tremendously vital network, with many people doing very important work. Just look at the radio landscape. Democracy Now, Radio Nation, Making Contact, or National Native News.
Radio is a tremendously powerful and intimate vehicle.
Edward Said calls it the oppositional vehicle, because visual images steal our imagination. TV sort of paralyzes our thoughts, while radio allows the mind to absorb subtle and not so subtle messages. Around 1910 there was a weekly magazine in this country called Appeal to Reason. 700,000, with a readership of four million. Think about that, and about the US population in 1910.