Talk:Dallas Walker Smythe

A fact from Dallas Walker Smythe appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 November 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Dallas Smythe, an early researcher of the political economy of communications, earned an FBI file for his volunteerism with the American League for Peace and Democracy?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/November.

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I notice that it says Dallas was at University of Saskatchewan, but I am pretty sure it was University of Regina. I am going to ask Pat Howard, who was his colleague there, and then correct it if necessary.

So, I asked Roger Howard, who was in Regina with Dallas, and learned that the university was called "University of Saskatchewan at Regina" while Dallas was there. It was only renamed "University of Regina" later. I guess the original authors of the piece are correct. The integrity of wikipedia is unblemished!

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I think it will be necessary to extend a little bit about Smythe's concept "audience commodity"Milkteanwhitepearls (talk) 21:26, 2 April 2020 (UTC). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Milkteanwhitepearls (talk • contribs) 11:37, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]