"Bakelite Man" wrote in message
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Why is it that all the nuts, screwballs, anti-semites and
quasi-religious mental patients always seem to gravitate to
the broadcast medium of shortwave radio...?

I mean, there has to be a (semi-rational ?) reason for this.

Is there?



What's a better way to reach the 0.01%ers? Sure, you could cover most of
the country with TV, but imagine the costs. The true believers aren't
inconvienced by the annoyances of SW, and it's cheap.

The Ezra Pound situation is a little different. Ezra wasn't paying for
time, he worked for the Italian Fascist government. Also, shortwave radio
was a higher profile medium, back then.

It would have been cool if there were about a dozen domestic SW broadcasters
about 35 years ago.We would have something like "Radio Free Dope" "The Fight
the Pigs Show" and "Communism is Neat".

I can only imagine the pain of a whole generation of kooks, deprived of SW
radio.

Frank Dresser


Frank,

Do you know if any of crazy Ezra's broadcasts survive?


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