EMBITTERED PARENT
Outburst by De Forest +EW parents can have spoken harsher words about their progeny than those uttered recently by Lee De Forest, aged 73, who fathered modern radio by his invention of the audion tube in
1907. In a letter to mark the 40th an‘niversary of that event which he wrote to the National Association of Broadcasters of America, De Forest said:- \ "What have you gentlemen done with my child? He was conceived as a potent instrumentality for culture, fine music, the uplifting of America’s mass intelligence. You have debased this child, you have sent him out on the streets . . « to collect money from all and sunSOye a. 5 "You have made him a laughing stock of intelligence, surely a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere: you have cut time into tiny cubelets . . |. wherewith the occasional fine program is periodically smeared with impudent insistence to kuy or try. "This child of mine has been resolutely kept to the average intelligence of 13 years... . as though you and your sponsors believe the majority of listeners have only ‘moron minds. Nay, the curse of his commercials has grown consistently more cursed, year by year."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 403, 14 March 1947, Page 13
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198EMBITTERED PARENT New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 403, 14 March 1947, Page 13
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