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Old Time Radio Programs
News Broadcasts and Blurbs. Mostly WW2 related.

NEWS REPORTS PAGE 2

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Reviewer: addison - - July 14, 2009
Subject: Finding the person or persons who own the radio pieces???
We're interested in obtaining the contact info for the owner of the following radio pieces:

5) 40-04-09-InvasionDenmarkNorwa.aif
9) 40-08-16_news-battleofbritain.aif

Any info is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Addison

Reviewer: paeanhera - - November 14, 2008
Subject: There was a REAL War Going On
It looks like I see someone too young to remember or have any notion of how the USA was really like then. If you can, find the John Dos Passos trilogy "USA" where he uses words like "bohunk," "wop," and the like routinely. That was the way life was 70-80 years ago. World War II was the scariest time imaginable, especially in 1942, when it still looked like the Axis Powers had a chance to take over the world. The war propaganda was very heavy. Very little of this material has been in the public eye since. The USA was a very insular place; people had a strong sense of home. We were far away from the dangers of Europe (five days by boat, though undersea telegraph cables made photos available to the newspapers nearly instantly, airplane travel was still a novelty and quite hazardous--no weather satellites in those days), and the few places where international boundaries were close to population centers made for easy control of immigration. The federal government has little reason to watch the rest of it. News always carried the opinion of the reporter back then. People didn't go to college to take "journalism" like it has been since the 1960s. If one wrote in a way to attract readers, one could get a job in the city room those days. That is the way it was.

Reviewer: soundfile - - October 4, 2007
Subject: Neutral reporting
The job of news reporters is to report the facts, sir, not to take sides. It is the job of the citizens to form their own opinions, not to rely on Big Brother to provide opinions for them. That's what the bad guys did, indoctrinate their people into thinking their gov't could do no wrong. Failure to abide by journalistic principles has resulted in the US falling into the same trap as Nazi Germany. Because the media has failed to report objectively, we started a war based on lies. These are great recordings to learn from. But they shouldn't be used to justify every war or every government.

Reviewer: kturnerga - - April 4, 2006
Subject: Pearl Harbor Bulletin may be a fake
Hello
These are very interesting clips from the time news was behind, not against, the US armed forces. However, according to old radio expert Elizabeth McLeod, the John Daly "We interrupt" bulletin to announce Pearl Harbor's bombing is faked. Someone years ago , according to McLeod, spliced Daly's FDR death bulletin with a regular non-bulletin of Pearl Harbor. I do not fault in any way Archive.org or anyone else who is responsible for posting this.