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speaker and listener. That is the immediate aspect of radio. A
private experience. The subliminal depths of radio are charged
with the resonating echoes of tribal horns and antique drums.
This is inherent in the very nature of this medium, with its
power to turn the psyche and society into a single echo
chamber. The resonating dimension of radio is unheeded by the
script writers, with few exceptions. The famous Orson Welles
broadcast about the invasion from Mars was a simple
demonstration of the all-inclusive, completely involving scope of
the auditory image of radio. It was Hitler who gave radio the
Orson Welles treatment for real .
That Hitler came into political existence at all is directly
owing to radio and public-address systems. This is not to say
that these media relayed his thoughts effectively to the
German people. His thoughts were of very little consequence.