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1996-04-10
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The uniting of radio with phonograph that constitutes
the average radio program yields a very special pattern quite
superior in power to the combination of radio and telegraph
press that yields our news and weather programs. It is curious
how much more arresting are the weather reports than the
news, on both radio and TV. Is not this because “weather” is
now entirely an electronic form of information, whereas news
retains much of the pattern of the printed word? It is probably
the print and book bias of the BBC and the CBC that renders
them so awkward and inhibited in radio and TV presentation.
Commercial urgency, rather than artistic insight, fostered by
contrast a hectic vivacity in the corresponding American
operation.