Dewey raps FCC’s radio censorship
Washington (UP) –
The Federal Communications Commission should have no right of radio censorship nor control over the content of radio programs, Republican presidential nominee Thomas E. Dewey said today in a copyrighted interview published by Broadcasting Magazine.
He said:
When the FCC starts to control program content, free radio goes out the window. The government no more belongs in this field than in the field of the newspaper and magazine.
He added that he favors a new law which would restrict the FCC to regulation of technical facilities.
Address of Dewey assailed by Myers
Allentown, Pennsylvania –
Rep. Francis J. Myers, in an address before the Lehigh County Democratic Committee here last Saturday, blasted the presidential campaign address delivered Thursday night by Governor Thomas E. Dewey in Philadelphia.
He declared:
It was a speech that might well have been prepared by Hitler or Goebbels; a deliberate planned effort to divide our people in the midst of war; and a premeditated plan to frighten the mothers of our gallant servicemen.
Mr. Myers charged that Governor Dewey’s speech was “cheap and contemptible,” and also “was the beginning of Thomas E. Dewey’s end.”