141: "In the era of the Red Scare, after World War I, and the rise of totalitarian regimes abroad, with social unrest and militant labor unions at home, the potential for nationwide communications to fall into the wrong hands was recognized as a serious threat to U.S. national security. One way of dealing with the threat was to concentrate this potential under the technological control of a handful of companies allied or at least aligned with the U.S. government. This, was one reason that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could lean toward interpreting its legitimate regulatory role as ensuring corporate stability against upstart new technologies .... Moreover, by enabling corporate concentration in the media it could indirectly control a force that it could not afford to control openly." Winston, Brian. 1998. Media Technology and Society: A History From the Telegraph to the Internet (London: Routledge): p. 112.
Graham, Margaret. 2000. "The Threshold of the Information Age: Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures Mobilize the Nation." Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. and James W. Cortada, eds. in A Nation Transformed By Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present (NY: Oxford University Press): pp. 137-76. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
