Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first politician to recognize the
power of radio. He appealed directly to the American people for
support of his New Deal and for his foreign policy. Roosevelt's
speeches and fireside chats were broadcast over networks only
recently equipped with newsrooms. Listeners immediately learned of
events they earlier would not have heard about for days. In those
newsrooms, commentators began to interpret the news for average
listeners, sometimes slanting it to reflect their own view. But it
fell to a young star to demonstrate the full power of the medium.
On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast
brought widespread panic with its fictional newscast of an alien
invasion. How Roosevelt used radio, how the news was reported, and
the changes Welles caused are all detailed.
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