HUMA 2740 Lecture Notes - African Americans, Loss Leader, Lesson Learned

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Nightly news broadcasts had a relatively slow start. These programs drew on 2 influences from older media: broadcast radio news that played and important role in shaping the way. Americans thinks about ww2 and the atrical newsreel great depression and the way americans saw the broader world around them. New reels had been produced regularly since 1904. Both influences convey the concerns of producing info within a commercial context: advertising on radio and admission prices for newsreels. Since on location reporting via video was not technologically feasible, early network news relied primarily upon licensing film footage shot by newsteel companies. Not until 1950s they were able to make their own news programs and move to multi-sponsor system of advertising. Enemy of this system was totalitarian state capitalism developed by stalin and his successors in the soviet union. Reporting of foreign affairs always brought up a question is this or that country on our side of theirs.

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