30 YEARS AGO IN REASON.

• Position: Brief Article

Letters

* "Perhaps it has taken the veiled threats of Spiro Agnew and Martha Mitchell to awaken newsmen to the dangers of government regulation, but whatever it is, [Walter] Cronkite is wide awake....Noting the trend toward fewer and fewer newspapers, Cronkite stated that broadcast media can provide, a check on printed media 'if we are left free to perform that essential journalistic function. The trouble is that we are not free, we are government-licensed.'"

Robert Poole Jr., "Cronkite's Crisis"

* "If the purpose of the anti-trust laws was to smash big business, then why has the American economy become much more centralized since their passage?"

Roy Childs Jr., "Big Business and the Rise of...