Herbert Hoover Quotes
It is inconceivable that we should allow so great a possibility for service, for news, for entertainment, and for vital commercial purposes to be drowned in advertising chatter.
The Commerce Department was then in charge of Radio regulation and policy. Hoover, a great administrator and businessman, had a terrible record with policy making. He almost always zigged when he should have zagged. He let General Douglas MacArthur loose to brutalize protesting veterans, would not use the Federal Government to provide any relief or stimulus as Roosevelt did in the Great Depression, and here, where he took a very left wing position on Radio Advertising, he was wrong again as it was the very thing he wanted to avoid that provided all the sponsors resources for all the great radio program development.
Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964, 31st President of the United States (Republican, IA), Statement About Radio when he was Secretary of Commerce, 1922
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Nixon shortly thereafter hired Ailes to run his television campaign operations. At the time, there was still much debate as to whether television had any serious place in political campaigning. Ailes was not only ahead of his time conceptually, but developed many of the basic techniques that politicians used with television for years thereafter.
See Fred W. Friendly for an almost as harsh an incitement: {611294}
In the age of digital electronics, the media, with its tendency to want to be the first to break any news story, reports events very quickly even when they have not verified what they are reporting. When an event occurs, the initial reports almost always include some errors and are incomplete with respect to critical information. There is no time for reflection and adding context. Then they often repeat the errors and omissions until there is more clarity and they begin to report a more accurate version. National Public Radio thus tries to “slow down” the news, not report it immediately but to wait for verification and allow the journalists some time for contemplation and reflection.
Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician, businessman, and engineer, who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. Before serving as president, Hoover led the Commission for Relief in Belgium, served as the director of the U.S. Food Administration, and served as the third U.S. Secretary of Commerce.
