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Perhaps I've got too much confidence in my fellow-citizens, but it seems to me that we don't need this kind of trash to wake us up to the desirability of living in a democracy. These songs are a downright insult to whatever intelligence and taste you or I may have. As music they're worthless, and as far as patriotism is concerned, I've heard more convincing stuff from Father Coughlin's radio sermons. So the next time one of us is tempted to throw away a nickel to hear God Bless America on a juke...
...contention is that a comprehensive job of radio propaganda analysis requires listener, analyst, and editor all in the same person. . . . The trouble is that the important stuff is strewn at random among the trash, and lots of times discernible only by its absence, as in the case of the "Allied change of mind." To get weary is therefore fatal for the post listener as I experienced when CBS and UP picked up Nazi Admiral Luetzow's statement about the scuttling of the Nazi destroyers at Narvik. As a rule the admiral talks so humdrum that he deserves only...
Asked at a Rochester University round table whether he thought the motion picture industry would eventually stop foisting "trash" on the public, Producer David Selznick (Gone With the Wind) replied: "If we don't give it to them, radio . . . will...
...plan were already in evidence. Local churches, civic clubs and social service organizations joined in enthusiastic support of the students and East-side "gangs." Mickey Sullivan had offered two trucks to help clear the ground. With the approval and aid of the Park Board, the unsightly stumps and trash would soon have yielded to a soft-ball field, track and volleyball courts...
...have to put on boxing gloves and fight it out in the front line. If they got a bit hurt --well, that's really the most important part of our plan. Only the men over 45 (and the women who admitted it) and our special regiment made up of "trash" would be allowed anywhere near the battlefield. The rest of the army, which would be mostly college boys, could just sit in the background and think about next weekend...