Terkel continues, “It was not just a question about being American but about being thinking Americans. That was Norman Corwin. The assumption was that we are a thoughtful people.”
Clarification: We originally reported that the line “Post proofs that brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those who profit by postponing it pretend” was written by Corwin for an all-network radio broadcast. In fact, the program for which the line was written, On a Note of Triumph, was, at first, only broadcast on CBS Radio. However, the program proved so popular that a live encore performance was broadcast five days later on the CBS, NBC, Blue, and Mutual networks. The relevant sentence has been corrected. CJR regrets the error.
Hmm, how and why did the 'Golden Age of Radio' happen before NPR?
#1 Posted by Mark Richard, CJR on Fri 21 Oct 2011 at 12:44 PM
dito the previous comment
#2 Posted by Cheryl, CJR on Wed 2 Nov 2011 at 12:31 AM