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How Fox News Changed The World
Then & Now: Philosophy, History & Politics
The History of Television and Radio
The first popular news programme to film its own stories was NBC's 1949 Camel-sponsored News Caravan, presented by John Cameron Swazie. In the 50s broadcasters began to experiment with new styles, more appropriate to the small screen. The first innovative modern documentary style program was journalist Ed Murray's 1951 C-It Na. It used unscripted interviews, lots of specially filmed footage and began to expand on the topics it covered. But while covering sensitive issues, C-ItNa quickly attracted controversy. FCC Chairman Newton Minow gave a famous speech in 1962 saying that television had become a sensationalist, vast wasteland.
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