The Beginning of Fireside Chats

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Radio was used as a weapon of propaganda in the thirties and second world war. The fair s doctrine suggested that broadcasters had to be neutral when dealing with controversy. And they also had a legal duty to allow people of response time if they'd been impugned on the radio. This is the beginning of fireside chats. An ye, you are even before then,. i just thought it would be great andyat the fireside chats... But then you had the experience of the totalitarian regime, beginning understand radio as what gobbles called the spiritual weapon of fashism and totalitarianism. As a machine gun can mow down your opponents, the radio can convince them.

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