MC 2000 Chapter : Electronic News
Document Summary
Freeman, craig: a brief history of electronic news, newsreels, newsreels were short films, usually around 10 minutes long, about the news of the day. In 1946, 63 percent of americans cited radio as their primary source of news: in 1948, radio demonstrated its advantage over the slower-moving print media. Early editions of newspapers erroneously reported that republican. But edward murrow at cbs believed otherwise: by 1947, television network newscasts had regular sponsors. News caravan, on cbs, was sponsored by camel cigarettes and forbade news subjects, except winston churchill, to be shown smoking cigars. Camera operators and editors had to ensure that no no smoking signs would be seen on screen: by the early 1950s the television networks were maintaining film crews in important locations and relying on stringers in other places. Mccarthyism through the story of a u. s. airman who had been discharged from the air force because his father and sister read.
