Re:Why people make a living online out of courses on how to ...
by kwere on Monday March 13, 2023 @04:24PM
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its unfortunate there arent proofs of those times like there are for printed papers
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Re:Why people make a living online out of courses on how to ...
by bell-cot on Monday March 13, 2023 @04:51PM
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I doubt that printed transcripts, let alone recordings, of ~99.9% of the broadcasts survive. But the history is well documented...if almost unknown to younger folks. For a start:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley#Brinkley_and_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XERA-AM#The_border_blaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkley_Act
(There probably are wagonloads of printed works - sales flyers, bottle labels, newspaper ads, etc. - documenting the literal "snake oil". Though you might have to do some digging in newspaper archives, libraries, and museums to find much of it.)