Radio tried everything, and it all worked. It invented a new kind of singer whose voice wasn't even loud enough to carry across a hotel bedroom, and Americans, as it turned out, would rather hear these "crooners" than any big-bellied tenor who ever shook an opera house chandelier.
Sam Moore
The mediums of media are forever in flux, each generation heralded as bringing a bright new future and destroying a new part of our brains. Here we are, broadcasting from a blog, and we will spend this week looking back at the old wireless - not the wi-fi kind.
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