RTA 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: All-News Radio, Propaganda Film, Walter Winchell
28 Aug 2016
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Jon stewart is arguably the most trusted news guy in america. Big ideas: fact vs. opinion (partisanship) credibility/trust, objectivity vs. emotion, public interest vs. commerce, events create newsmen and news organizations. Newspapers would give a copy to broadcasters to be read aloud. Not immediate, more of an outloud-reading of newspapers. Not much radio news because: tension with newspapers, fight for ad revenues. Radio listings paid ads or not (public service): same issue today where sites copy and edit others" stories with credit but no pay, sponsorship issues. Moose river mine event was covered by crbc. Live 5 min update every half hour for 111 hours straight. 58 stations in can, 650 in us millions of listeners. Newspaper can"t deliver as fast, but has more detail. Divergence of radio and paper news purpose. Showbiz + news, but news had minimal info. Hindenburg, lindberg events caused us to take news seriously.
