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into a major national role. Since the advent of radio, the gag
has supplanted the joke, not because of gag writers, but
because radio is a fast hot medium that has also rationed the
reporter’s space for stories.
Jean Shepherd of WOR in New York regards radio as a new
medium for a new kind of novel that he writes nightly. The mike
is his pen and paper. His audience and their knowledge of the
daily events of the world provide his characters, his scenes, and
moods. It is his idea that, just as Montaigne was the first to
use the page to record his reactions to the new world of printed
books, he is the first to use radio as an essay and novel form
for recording our common awareness of a totally new world of
universal human participation in all human events, private or
collective.