it's exactly the kind of unique encounter that wade hargrove, benefactor of this inaugural colloquium most hope to initiate. congratulations to you. congratulations to the professor of the school of law and the school of journalism, the talented codirectors for the center on media, law and policy. thank you, david barrett. thank you, ben sherwood, for the animated discussion. i have to make a few close in march. i told david i may simply recite a sign of lines of radio and television nude draws -- news broadcasters and sit down. and taking my own idea with some sickness i begin this past weekend to review what is really an astonishingly short history of broadcast news, for whatever it might yield. but first, the first truly national radio broadcast came under 75 years ago in 1938 when the legendary opt out of cbs news created an anchorman's role in radio new york, bringing on the scene live reports in aftermath of the ominous union between expanding nazi germany under relatively helpless austria. at the other end of bob trout's live broadcast from new york were too young legends in tr