Near my bed, to my pain 
     The last thing at night, the first thing in the morning, 
     Of their victories and of my cares, 
     Promise me not to go silent all of a sudden.

     One of the many effects of television on radio has been to 
shift radio from an entertainment medium into a kind of 
nervous information system. News bulletins, time signals, 
traffic data, and, above all, weather reports now serve to 
enhance the native power of radio to involve people in one 
another. Weather is that medium that involves all people 
equally. It is the top item on radio, showering us with fountains 
of auditory space or lebensraum .

     It was no accident that Senator McCarthy lasted such a 
very short time when he switched to TV. Soon the press