Wars of the Word
Throughout history, strict control of channels of information has been recognised as the key to retaining and exploiting political power. Today, the control of national television is seen by regimes the world over as a necessary adjunct to their survival.
Peter France presents two films about the control and effect of mass communications in other times.
The first tells the story of the financial control of the political press by the establishment in early 19th-century Britain, and the second the psychological power of a dramatic radio broadcast in the USA 100 years later, when the young Orson Welles petrified a nation.
Film editors PAUL ASHTON KEN KIRBY Producers
JANE TREAYS. NEIL CAMERON Series editor ROY DAVIES
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