How did the right get their vice grip of the airwaves, all the while arguing that they were being silenced and censored by a liberal media?
KATYA ROGERS: Hi, OTM listeners. This is Katya. You are listening to episode three of The Divided Dial, our brand new five-part series about the power of talk radio and of one company in particular, Salem Media. This episode and the next one, look at the history of talk radio to uncover how early ideas about liberal bias helped fuel right wing radio's growth.But if you haven't heard the first two, we recommend that you go back and listen before you start this one. Enjoy.
KATIE THORNTON: Fourth of July, 1973, in Philadelphia was hot as hell. But that didn’t deter the 50 or so protesters who gathered outside Independence Hall for a makeshift funeral. Dressed to the nines as the founding fathers — powdered wigs and all — they were there to mark the end of an era. They were there to mourn.The leader of the group, a fundamentalist preacher named Carl McIntire, approached a homemade coffin, adorned with the words “Freedom of Speech.
[TAPE] CARL MCINTIRE: Then let the guilt lie squarely upon such philosophers as Martin Luther King and President Johnson … What did the Negro apologists of our time expect?[TAPE] CARL MCINTIRE: Slap at the white Americans, what the world ought to see is that the communists are so evil…[TAPE] CARL MCINTIRE: The Jews at the present time are in darkness. They are going back in unbelief.KATIE THORNTON: But all of that was legal.
KATIE THORNTON: Roosevelt had, as we say in radio, great pipes. But he also owed the success of his regular “fireside chats” in part to good timing: by the 1930s, most Americans had a radio in the house. And a network of long-distance phone lines brought a select few programs to stations across the country. NICOLE HEMMER: The radio dial really was the sort of cafe culture of the 1930s. KATIE THORNTON: This is Nicole Hemmer.
And many on the right felt that the die was cast: the media was a tool of the U.S. government, and the government was silencing conservative voices. But Nicole Hemmer says that the effect wasn’t just quieting anti-Semites. It also helped rally support for the U.S.’s entry into the war.NICOLE HEMMER: Non-interventionist voices were finding it harder and harder to find a platform and particularly once the U.S. goes to war, there is no space in media for people who are arguing that the U.S.
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