Comparing the media landscape of a radio reporter, from almost a century ago, to the social media world of today is nonsensical.
3.2 billion people are connected to the internet. Every day 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created. 
I am sure someone, somewhere, had issues about who controlled the messages on papyrus scrolls, but, like Shire's comments, it is irrelevant when everyone today is their own publisher and everyone is connected to everyone else. The gatekeepers are long gone.