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England and America had had their “shots” against radio
in the form of long exposure to literacy and industrialism. These
forms involve an intense visual organization of experience. The
more earthy and less visual European cultures were not immune
to radio. Its tribal magic was not lost on them, and the old web
of kinship began to resonate once more with the note of
fascism. The inability of literate people to grasp the language
and message of the media as such is involuntarily conveyed by
the comments of sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld in discussing the
effects of radio:
The last group of effects may be called the
monopolistic effects of radio. Such have attracted most
public attention because of their importance in the
totalitarian countries. If a government monopolizes the
radio, then by mere repetition and by exclusion of