Religion: Radio Rights

Ministers should make large and frequent use of the radio. They should feel free to say anything they like so long as they do not slander or libel. If they offend some hearers, stations are many and dials are easy to twiddle. But—"The radio, as administered by the present Federal Commission, is a class agency, a political agency, and an agency without any real freedom."

So last week editorialized The Christian Century, liberal Episcopal weekly which gave its benedictions to an odd trio of broadcasting preachers—a noisy, crusading Methodist, a famed Roman Catholic, a...

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