1950's Radio History

I found that Mr. Murrow had three utmost important topics that were very endearing and focused mostly on them with total honesty, and those were in relation to Senators, Communism and Nazis. Edward Murrow followed up on those things listed throughout his entire career in journalism and media

As I sat in my apartment and waited for my guest I opened up my laptop to skim my notes. Edward R. Murrow, radio broadcast legend and American hero. This man survived London during World War II and now he’s coming over to my house for an interview. So many thoughts circled my head while I waited. What questions will I ask? How will he answer? Will I be able to use this interview at all? I kept frantically flipping through my notes when I heard a knock at the door.

Murrow continues his speech to elaborate on the power of broadcast journalism. Murrow explains that the television is a platform to educate and inform the public. It is a place for debating and questioning the status quo. Yet, it is being used for entertainment and mundaneness.

After the First World War, many people were looking forward to good times. The 1920’s presented people with this time of fast-paced fun and adventure. Entertainment was the foremost part of everyday life during the 1920’s. Radio introduced a whole new practice of entertainment to people’s everyday lives. Likewise, through the utilization of the radio, people were able to experience a new medium to entertain themselves. Furthermore, the radio changed the face of society’s culture through its widespread use. In addition, radios provided people with a new, effective and efficient means of communication. Radio was a fundamental aspect in people’s lives during the 1920’s as it provided many people with news and entertainment in their

At the beginning of the decade the nation was still groggy from waking up to a new decade after fighting in World War I. In 1921 President Harding took office and set the course for economic prosperity and a self-propelling nation. The decade of 1920 presented many national shifts of aspects in economy and culture that would include outrageous activity in the stock markets, the use of the radio as a mass media tool, the artistic movement known as the Harlem Renaissance and the age of prohibition. With such changes occurring on a national level the decade became known as the Roaring 20’s.

Conrad liked to have many different thing on his radio for anyone to listen too, which was anything from high school bands, baseball repots, and music. Conrad radio soon became very popular in Pittsburgh, with an increasing amount of people starting to request air time. When he couldn’t keep up with the requests anymore, he decided to broadcast regularly to make his listeners happy, the most popular being music. In the beginning, he just used his own collection of records, when that ran out he borrowed from the local music store. Conrad would mention the store on air, in exchange he was able to borrow music from them.

In 1894, Guglielmo Marconi built the first commercially successful radio, capable of military and marine communication based off of airborne Hertzian waves. This invention pushed communication for the world to new levels, and in the sprawling United States, the radio brought new ways to make money in a growing consumer market for the United States, as well as to bring the nation together more with the radio’s near instant ability for one person to reach millions directly. Although the radio was invented in 1894, it would take a few decades for the invention to become widespread. One of the first major groups to see the potential of the radio was the US Department of Agricultural.

First Edward Murrow started his career with CBS and was with them for 14 years (Biography.com, 2017). As a matter of fact, Edward Murrow career started when he lives “London, England” for two years (Biography.com, 2017, 2). In an event that happen Edward Murrow “risked his life” to report a bombing in London (Biography.com Editors, 2017, 2). As a result, Edward Murrow work from shelter covering this story so the audience would be on their toes wanting to know what happen next (Biography.com Editors, 2017). Although, Edward Murrow was a tremendous newscaster he was not known until 1951 where he star in “See it Now” (Biography.com Editors, 2017, 3). In fact, Edward Murrow did not believe in communist like Senator McCarthy (Biography.com Editors, 2017). In reality Murrow told a story about a “soldier who was removed from the military for being a security risk” (Biography.com, 2017, 3). Owing to, this Murrow showed “McCarthy for the bully that he was using McCarthy’s own words” (Biography.com Editors, 2017, 3). Edward Murrow was not going to show fear he was sticking up for what he believes in. However, Edward Murrow had a soft spot in his heart interviewing a “person to a person” (Biography.com Editors, 2017, 4). Regardless Edward Murrow did whatever it took to make is audience, entertain any if that meant jeopardizing his life for his

Throughout this investigation, many types of sources were used. Primary source recordings to books written by historians alike point to the same conclusion: Murrow’s famous broadcast planted seeds of dissent in public opinion and marked the beginning of the end for McCarthy’s political career. Every source used for this investigation supports this conclusion, which indicates that further research should be done. This investigation is lacking in sources demonstrating that Murrow was unimportant in McCarthy’s political career. In this way, this investigation is biased in support of Murrow.

During the 20th century was the roaring twenties, meaning a lot of things happened to like The Stock market Crashed, Many great inventions were invented, the Harlem Renaissance and jazz period happened, one of the greatest inventions that we use still to this day was invented and that was the Automobile and it also promotes what this article is about because a car has a radio and radios were also invented in the roaring twenties. The radio was invented in 1895 by a man named Guglielmo Marconi he was an Italian inventor by 1899 his invention(The Radio) was wireless. One of the first radio stations know was KDKA which was located in Pittsburgh,PA. One of the greatest stories involving radios

Morace, Robert A. “The Enormous Radio.” Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition, September 2006, pp. 1. EBSCOhost, doi: 103331MSA15579830000556. Accessed: 22 March 2017.

Murrow was more than willing to take the risks involved in order to inform the public of the deceptive nature of McCarthy’s methods, and it is not outright stated, but conveyed through Strathaim’s acting choices and characterization, that Murrow saw it as his duty to the American people.

The coincidence of the growth of television with the first military defeat for America was used by the government to explain why the war was lost: it wasn’t because of government policy or by underestimating the enemy but because television journalism and lack of censorship that undermined the whole operation “by ‘graphic and unremitting distortion’ of the facts, pessimism, and unvarnished depiction of both Americas youthful casualties and American ‘atrocities’ inflicted on the Vietnamese.” The amount of televisions in America was on the increase; ‘In 1950, only 9 percent of homes owned a television. By 1966, this figure rose to 93 percent.’ This alone shows the sheer coverage that the news had and the potential influence that it could impose upon the minds of the people. Not only did more people have television sets in their homes but more and more people were relying on television over any other medium to obtain their news. The survey conducted by the Roper organisation for the Television Information Office in 1972 shows us that 64% of people got most of their news from television, an 8% increase from the survey conducted in 1964. Another factor in the power of television was not just the fact that it reached a wide audience, it was also the fact that people were more likely to believe what the television news said over reports in the newspaper or radio, especially if the reports were conflicting in nature. This was due to two factors; the personality who

At the beginning of television news an arrangement existed between television journalists and the public. It was look at as that in modern times promotion journalism was normal. The United States was the modern, broadminded leader of the free world. When Walter Cronkite reported on the daily count of deaths of American soldiers in Vietnam, in lead to the antiwar disapprovals of the 1960s. One man changed how the United States look at the war with his power and influence to change people opinions. (Mann)

The radio is one of the most influential pieces of technology ever invented. From political debates to Taylor Swift’s latest hit, with the help of the radio, society stays informed on a plethora of topics. Freddie Mercury wasn’t lying when he said, “and everything I had to know, I learned it on my radio.” In almost every country in the world, there is at least one radio station used to broadcast news to it’s people. Since the creation of the FM radio, it has been used to reach out to people over a certain area and keep them informed about the society they live in. During the 1930s and the 1940s, the radio played a very important role in history; it was a tool used during World War II by America, Great Britain, and Nazi Germany. By sending