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© Greg Nash The radio industry roared onto the American scene a century ago, filling the nation’s airwaves with music and news, but also with commercials, wave piracy, and technological chaos. Radio quickly affected all corners of society, changing the nature of the national conversation, how products were marketed, and speeding up cultural trends with its instantaneous reach. Radio no doubt helped make the Roaring Twenties roar. Virtually nobody listened to radio in 1920. By the late twenties, practically all Americans were tuned in. Concerns grew for what this newfangled medium meant for...
rd Today in 1836,Mexican troops began the siege of the Alamoin San Antonio, Texas. The siege only ended in an assault on March 6ththat killed almost all of the remaining Texan defenders. Today in 1861,afteran unsuccessful assassination attempt in Baltimore, Abraham Lincoln was transported secretly to Washington DC to take office. Today in 1870,the state of Mississippi was readmitted to the Union after the Civil War. Today in 1896, Leo Hirshfield introduced the Tootsie Roll. Today in 1898,Emile Zola, a famous French writer was imprisoned after writingthe letter “J’accuse,” which accused ...
Amateur Radio Users Want to Be of Service When Modern Technology Fails Talking with members of Nashville Amateur Radio Club, which has been around for 85 years Tweet Monvel MaskewPhoto: Eric England The Radio Act of 1912 required amateur radio operators, sometimes known as “hams,” to get a license, and in 1914 the national Amateur Radio Relay League was founded. Nashville Amateur Radio Club has been around for 85 years, making it one of the oldest clubs in the country. The group’s 70 members now look for ways to be of service in a world in which technology has ev...
After Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump’s account, conservative interest in mandating online platform neutrality spiked. Meanwhile, progressives alarmed by the Capitol riot called for reviving the Fairness Doctrine to combat the misinformation circulating about the election. The national mood has never been more favorable for some kind of government regulation of the internet. The Fairness Doctrine hasn’t been active policy at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) since the 1980s, so public knowledge of the doctrine is hazy at best. But the more you learn about the actual h...