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Someone paid to have opinions at you faster than you can mute them.
means A person or company that sends radio or television programs out to a wide audience.
from Built from 'broadcast,' which originally meant scattering seed widely by hand across a field — a farming term from the 1700s. In the early 1900s, radio engineers borrowed the image: instead of sowing seed, they were sowing signals, flinging sound indiscriminately into the air for anyone within range to catch. 'Broadcaster' followed naturally, turning sowers of wheat into sowers of words.
- origin
- originally meant scattering seeds by hand, not words
- first radio broadcast
- 1906, Christmas Eve, violin and Bible verses
- irony
- job is talking, but survival depends on listening to ratings
- range
- covers both Walter Cronkite and a guy yelling scores