Radio: Deplored Dramatizations

Last week the American Bar Association decided that radio script writers were doing wrong by the profession. Huffily the Committee on Public Relations announced: “The committee objects to the characterization of lawyers on the radio as villains. The committee is taking up this objection with the broadcasters with a view to obtaining modification of such characterizations, at least to the extent of having villainous lawyers presented as an exception rather than as the rule.”

Similarly annoyed with the script writers last week was the International Association of Chiefs of Police, holding its annual meeting in Milwaukee. Decrying aerial crime dramas as being bad for moppets, the chiefs resolved to stop supplying radio writers with factual information from their files. Chief gripe was that their material was so distorted on the air that they could not recognize it. Whether they would approve of crime stories that stuck to the facts was left unresolved.