Response to Maddie's Post: Demassification of Radio

Link to Maddie's Post

  After reading Maddie's post about radio demassification, I definitely agree with what she said. This was one of the lectures I was able to be very engaged in because I had no prior knowledge about the beginning of radios. Maddie and I share similar thoughts about radio; we both think it's very intriguing that when radios were first invented, they were the big craze and everyone was fascinated with them, but now, we don't give a second thought to pressing a button in our car or in our homes and instantly hearing music or a talk show.
  Although Maddie did a great job explaining radios and their demassification, there were a couple of things that I didn't totally agree with. First, radios didn't really "create" our national culture, magazines were the first to do that, they just enhanced it and enforced it in a way. Second, in my opinion, radios weren't really art of creating the teenage image. It was more of television and movies that made this happen because of the combined visual and audio of the characters.
  Overall, I enjoyed reading through all of Maddie's blogs, but when I read this one, I wanted to respond to it because we shared ideas and at the same time had different views on certain ideas.