Radio: Interlude

Though eager to sell broadcast time to sponsored commentators with partisan views, most radio stations are timid about taking sides on anything. Last week—owing to circumstances beyond its control—a Los Angeles station found itself speaking right out in a labor dispute. Listeners to a recorded Harry Wismer sportscast on station KECA were startled when a fierce masculine voice suddenly broke in: "I interrupt this program to bring you a special message. I am the recording engineer making this transcription and I am using this means as a last resort to expose a vicious KECA racket. . ."

The voice went...

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