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Radio Starts to Grow Up
Siepmann, Charles A. | December 27, 1947 issue

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Radio still feeds on the credulity and escapist impulses of a people troubled in spirit and confused in mind, but there have been signs in 1947 of a developing maturity. Radio has turned, on a few significant occasions, from fantasy to facts and played its mirror on the nature and occasion of the discontent. A new kind of radio is coming into being. Its originators call it the radio documentary. If it is not to be still-born, it must be acclaimed and fostered by those who recognize its great potentialities.

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RADIO; CREDULITY; DELIRIUM; FANTASY; FACTS (Philosophy); DOCUMENTARY radio programs
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