Excerpt from Harry Hansen. "Some Meditations on the Radio." The Nation, March 25, 1925.

There it is, up in the air, absolutely free, waiting for you to pull it down with the aid of electricity. Opera and symphonic music, jazz, twenty minutes of good reading, how to cook by Aunty Jane, tales for the kiddies and prayers set to music, even "Now I lay me down to sleep"; sermons and exhortations not to drink, gamble, and blaspheme, with music by the white-robed choir; advice on how to spread your income by investment brokers; advice on how to make your shoes last longer by shoe salesmen; talks by the mayor on civic duty, on "Your Boy" by the master of the Boy Scouts; on the right sort of