Existing radio form suppressed its own progressive potential.

Evidence

In the fifteen points discussed in these Questions and Theses', he sketched out the starting-points for a dialectical theory of broadcasting’ and a `social theory of broadcasting’, and criticized the existing form of radio as inhibiting the progressive tendencies it contained. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 992

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how a newly-democratizing medium structurally forecloses its emancipatory possibilities, transferable to debates about the internet and social media.
• XREF: connects to: Radio dissolved the physical venue limits that had bounded mass political attention. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 412

Broader Connections

• Radio dissolved the physical venue limits that had bounded mass political attention. #expands (0.75) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 412