This week I felt was a mess of several different lessons discussed interchangeably and it kind of left me really confused. We had to read How Music Got Free by Witt, which I will discuss my opinions on later in this blog.

So this week we started off by talking about radio and how by 1939 it became booming where nearly every single region had several radio stations which were dominated by a few large networks like NBC. But then with this boom in radio there was eventual problems with frequencies and the proximity of the stations to one another because if two stations were close to each other and they used the same frequency they would conflict, it was later settled through the federal communications commission who regulated radio. Okay now Witts book, I generally liked it, I enjoyed the fact that it was told as a story and I enjoyed the drama involved in it all about the formatting war and the CD leakage and etc I just feel like maybe the book would have fit better into the lesson plan earlier on in the semester. Overall it was a good book regardless.

Furthermore, broadcast channels were scarce at the time, so basically the FCC had a money licensing fee and had to decided if it was public benefit to allow the rights in that specific region. I laughed when we started talking about the restriction of content and censorship of shows by FCC, how basically everyone watched the same exact things as one another and there was no vulgarity and everything was fake basically, like a married couple sleeping in two separate beds.. REALLY?

But now we struggle with the idea of not having any censorship really on TV and within media because now with no censorship, the crazies come out. People spreading conspiracy theories has no limit because we cannot censor their free speech but then danger and trouble come out of it because of that, like the DC pizza parlor, and the pain the families of sandy hook and 9/11 feel because they are constantly told that the trauma that happened to them and their families was not real and all falsified and there is huge groups of people that genuinely believe it and it really breaks my heart.