Wednesday, December 06, 2017
Missing title
A 1933 broadcasting trade magazine was discussing a pointless squabble between the old wire services and the new radio news. AP and UPI were blocking radio from using their bulletins, forgetting that many radio stations were owned by newspapers. The bulletins still got out. The article mentioned that FDR's May 7 speech thanked radio for providing an immediate channel to the public, thus scoring a point against the papers. Or at least that's how the radio trade journal chose to see it.
His May 7 speech was described as the 2nd Fireside Chat and also as an "account of stewardship".
"Account of stewardship" has completely disappeared from online references. It's a good title with constitutional resonance, so it needs to be represented online, which I just did.
The speech itself is worth reading. It shows a determined problem-solver enlisting the nation's help with his solutions. He explains the problems accurately and honestly, lists his intended solutions, and repeats often that the solutions will require considerable trial and error. The entire New Deal is there in a few paragraphs. All of it was achieved, by hook or by crook, and ALL OF IT WORKED, thank God.
Step by step, sentence by sentence, the correct solution is there. Step by step, sentence by sentence, FDR's administration applied the solution and eliminated the problems. Step by step, sentence by sentence, later presidents faced with the same problems applied DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSITE answers, which predictably made the problems worse. Genocidal monsters.
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