The Federal Radio Commission has interpreted the concept of public…

The Federal Radio Commission has interpreted the concept of public interest so as to favor in actual practice one particular group… the commercial broadcasters.

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E. Pendleton Herring, “Politics and Radio Regulation”, Harvard Business Review , January 1935

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