Some reactions to the advent of campaigning by radio

Abstract

How did the social commentators and critics of the day react to the first uses of radio for national political campaigning? Many of them showed a great deal of foresight; more perhaps than the politicians themselves. Quoting from newspapers and periodicals of the time, the author of this article concentrates on the effects of some of the earliest non‐entertainment American broadcast programming—the election campaigns of 1924. Dr. G. Joseph Wolfe is associate professor of radio‐tv‐film in the department of Speech and Dramatic Art at the University of Missouri.