FAMST 101D Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Munich Agreement
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Pushed forth partisan agenda - for instance, with democracy in action programming. "selling their (fdr) policies to the american people" Fdr administration was intervening in the cultural fabric of the nation. Decreasing distance between the state and the people. Munich crisis: hitler wanted to repatriate germans living in sudetenland, wanted to annex it, sent pm chamberlain into a frenzy. Marked as the debut of radio as the premiere news medium. Americans were glued to their radios for any and all information coming out of the. Munich crisis; they had the ability to listen to history in the making. Fueled the demand because that was the only way isolationist americans could stay in the know about foreign affairs they expected multiple reports all the time. Blessing: network broadcasters became more famous than the programs themselves. Curse: broadcasts became biased; lack of differentiation between objective and subjective reporting; broadcasters" influence on public opinion became questionable.
