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U.S. Television Nes and Cold War Propaganda, 1947}}}1960 [Hardcover]

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  • Category: Books (Performing Arts)
  • Author:  Bernhard, Nancy
  • Author:  Bernhard, Nancy
  • ISBN-10:  0521594154
  • ISBN-10:  0521594154
  • ISBN-13:  9780521594158
  • ISBN-13:  9780521594158
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Pages:  268
  • Pages:  268
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Binding:  Hardcover
  • Pub Date:  01-May-1999
  • Pub Date:  01-May-1999
  • SKU:  0521594154-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0521594154-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100933372
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How US government and media collaborated in their dissemination of Cold War propaganda.Television news and the Cold War grew simultaneously in the years following World War II, and their history is deeply intertwined. In order to guarantee sufficient resolve in the American public for a long term arms buildup, defense and security officials turned to the television networks. In need of access to official film and newsmakers to build themselves into serious news organizations, and anxious to prove their loyalty in the age of blacklisting, the network news divisions acted as unofficial state propagandists. This book analyzes the shocking extent of their collaboration.Television news and the Cold War grew simultaneously in the years following World War II, and their history is deeply intertwined. In order to guarantee sufficient resolve in the American public for a long term arms buildup, defense and security officials turned to the television networks. In need of access to official film and newsmakers to build themselves into serious news organizations, and anxious to prove their loyalty in the age of blacklisting, the network news divisions acted as unofficial state propagandists. This book analyzes the shocking extent of their collaboration.Television news and the Cold War grew simultaneously in the years following World War II, and their history is deeply intertwined. In order to guarantee sufficient resolve in the American public for a long term arms buildup, defense and security officials turned to the television networks. In need of access to official film and newsmakers to build themselves into serious news organizations, and anxious to prove their loyalty in the age of blacklisting, the network news divisions acted as unofficial state propagandists. This book analyzes the shocking extent of their collaboration.Introduction: selling the Cold War consensus; 1. Business, the state, and information from World War II to Cold War; 2. Democracy and the advent ol“Y
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