veryone has a little bit of genius, that is, they do really listen. They can listen and talk at the same time. Then they grow a little older and many of them get tired and listen less and less. But very few continue to listen. (Just ask any one who is married!) Finally, they get very old and they do not listen anymore. "That is very sad, let us not talk about it," said Gertrude Stein.

In a way, what happened to radio in this country was very sad. People stopped listening to each other and also to the radio, a wonderful medium of our time. And then came the great "come-back" of the "second-class medium".... more