POLS 3440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pew Research Center, Fireside Chats, Facebook Messenger
13 Jan 2019
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Three times in the past century the advent of new technology has transformed politics. The first time was in the 1920s with the advent of radio. Radio took political campaigns away from street corners and meeting halls and into millions of homes where families gathered around the receiver to listen to their leaders. In the united states, franklin roosevelt used the new medium for his fireside chats to reassure americans during the great depression and the outbreak of the second world war. In britain, winston churchill used radio to opposite but equal effect. To rally his people to resist the nazis in the dark days of the war in europe. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender winston churchill, june 1940.
