The other day I heard Terry Gross’s excellent interview of Bob Edwards on NPR’s Fresh Air. Edwards was touting his new book Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism. In the course of the interview Edwards told several anecdotes about the origins of broadcast journalism.
I found several of them pretty interesting. For example, he said that the state of the technology was such that the field reporters lugged heavy shortwave radio transmitters around with them and, when they had something to report, they started transmitting. If they were lucky the New York offices would pick up the transmission and they’d be on the air in the U. S. If they weren’t lucky, they’d just be talking “into the air”.
Hello, New York, London calling!
It occurred to me that blogging was a lot like that. Sometimes we find an audience. Other times we’re just talking “into the air”.
Hello, New York, Chicago calling!
