contrasting versions of radio history

Contrast these two versions of early broadcast history:

1. "The chaos that developed ... was indescribable.... Private enterprise, over seven long years, failed to set its own house in order. Cut-throat competition at once retarded radio's orderly development and subjected listeners to intolerable strain and inconvenience."
   -- Charles Siepmann, Radio, Television and Society, 1950


2. "One of our troubles in getting legislation [to nationalize the airwaves] was the very success of the voluntary system we had created. Members of the Congressional committees kept saying, 'it is working well, so why bother?'"
   -- The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, 1952