The Broadcast Century and Beyond, 5th Edition

Preface

As we write this, more than a century has passed since words and music were first sent successfully through the air and more than three quarters of a century since pictures were added to the words and music.

During the past century and into this new one, broadcasting and its related new and emerging media means of distribution have been both praised and vilified. They have been deserving of both: praised when they have fulfilled their potential and obligation to society by providing unbiased and stimulating ideas, information, and entertainment that mark and contribute to the progress and growth of humanity, but vilified when the ideological biases of their owners and/or operators supersede their objective responsibility and inculcate ...