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Impact of Broadcast News 1920-80 (Shaping Opinion (News became less based…
Impact of Broadcast News 1920-80
Broadcast news was far faster than newspapers and a voice seemed more authoritative than newsprint - so it had more of an impression
Newspapers began to fight back providing what radio couldn't - images!
The Daily News was the first tabloid newspaper that had a camera as its logo and photographs as illustration.
Reports of falling stock prices and falling share prices led to more crisis, panic and fear which made the issue worse
Radio did help settle the crisis
FDR's radio talks helped him restore confidence in the banks
It reported on the war much faster than cinema newsreels that not everyone would see
Ed Murrow made his name as a radio reporter during WW2 and his team were based in London, he accompanied over 20 bombing missions
Back in the USA after the war Ed Murrow became co-producer and presenter of CBS news series See It Now in 1951. On 20th October 1953, Murrow broadcast a story on the red scare about a young airman loosing his job because of possible family communist sympathies
In 54 See it Now did an entire episode on McCarthy using film and audio clips exposing him as a liar and a bully
1960s - live coverage of events like the Cuban Missile Crisis and the moon landing - while radio covered the news, many preferred the TV because it was more visual.
Even politicians who were part of the CMC negotiations were glued to the screens -
Shaping Opinion
News became less based around what was happening but their interoperation of what was happening
Later became what the owners of the news were thinking
Anchormen began to explain situations sometimes with maps - seen as teacher figures, could be trusted too
Walter Cronkite did a 1968 critical documentary on Vietnam and aired after the 1968 Tet Offensive
Vietnam was the first televised war, radio reports, newspapers with photos and led to a decline in confidence in the government
1965 CBS showed marines burning the village of Cam Ne to the ground and no rebels were found, critical reports were however a small part of a larger more neutral coverage
Jimmy Carter
Media at first responded well to Carter, represented him in a positive light
60-70% support in his first few months
Support was pulled out when it was discovered that he struggled to manage congress and policy
Carter's brother was involved in a few scandals with the IRS and his story reflected bad on Carter in light of Watergate
Collapsed at a marathon which made him look weak too
Comparison of how Carter was represented vs Eisenhower's illness - media now mocked the president
1979 52 Us Diplomats were held hostage and Carter failed to sort it and 444 days later mins into Reagan's presidency they were released