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Sunday, September 17, 2023

Changing Media Landscape

For Wednesday, 

Representation

First try:  a  far-right site.  Few details, few bites.

Next, the British Laundromat -- Daily Mail

Then comes social media mentions

Then comes the "mainstream" press rehashes

Now will come followup reports, with lots of help from oppo guys.

The Boebert Story:  let's list things she and her team did wrong

Compare and contrast with the Paxton story






Fake News, circa 1835:  The Moon Hoax

Daily Newspaper Circulation in the United States:

1850
758,000
1860
1,478,000
1870
2,602,000
1880
3,566,000
1890
8,387,000
1900
15,102,000
1909
24,212,000
1919
33,029,000
1929
42,015,000
1939
42,966,000

Source: Historical Statistics of the United States, 810.


Households with Radio Sets:

1922
60,000
1927
6,750,000
1932         
18,450,000
1937
24,500,000
1942
30,600,000






Source: Historical Statistics of the United States, 796.

(TERRIFIC BOOK ON EARLY BROADCASTING BY CMC ALUM SCOTT WOOLLEY)


Herb Morrison of WLS Chicago reports on the Hindenberg:



Percentage of Households with TV

1950....9.0
1951...23.5
1952. .34.2
1954.. 55.7
1955.. 64.5
1956.. 71.8
1957 ..78.6
1958 ..83.2
1959 ..85.9
1960 ..87.1
1961 ..88.8
1962 ..90.0
1963.. 91.3





1963: 30-minute broadcasts

The assassination



CABLE TV

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