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38 Cards in this Set
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What fraction of the population had a record player by 1929 |
Half |
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How many weekly visits to the cinema were there in 1930 |
80 million |
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How many cinema seats were there by 1941 |
One for every 12.5 people |
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What was tv ownership in 1950 compared to 1955 |
9% in 1950 compared to 63% in 1955 |
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How many weekly cinema visits were there in 1955 compared to 1965 |
59 million in 1955 to 20 million in 1965 |
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On election day 1921 what did radio broadcast before printing them |
Election results |
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How many radio stations were there by 1924 |
500 |
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How did the great depression affect radio sales |
Almost doubled 1930-35 |
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How big was Charles Coughlin's audience |
40 million in 1930 |
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What did Charles Coughlin use his radio show to support |
Roosevelt's new deal |
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What did radio host Walter Wendell support |
New deal |
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How many people watched the Nixon kennedy debates |
70 million people |
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What was the different reaction radio and tv viewers to the kennedy Nixon debates |
Radio listeners preferred Nixon and tv viewers preferred kennedy |
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What issue did MASH deal with |
Vietnam war |
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What were there complainants about in 1920s film |
Female start dressing provocatively and gangsters glamourozing violence |
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When was the gays code introduced |
1929 |
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What did the gays code ban on screen |
Nudity, digestive dancing, prostition l, homosexuality, drugs |
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What did the radio act of 1927 do |
Set up federal licensing of radio station s and share out the airwaves |
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What did the federal communication commission regulate during ww2 |
Tv and radio |
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How did the supreme court reverse itself in 1952 |
Ruled censorship of movies unconstitutional interference of free speech and the gays code was replaced with ratings |
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What did the 1955 do I. rebels without a cause promote |
Teenage rebellion |
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What did 1969 film easy rider deal with |
Hippies and drug use |
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When was the first tv ad to feature African Americans |
1963 |
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When was on a set up |
1969 |
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What was pbs agenda |
Liberal e.g. sesame street promoted racial tolerance |
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How did Edward burrow affect McCarthy with his 1954 tv show |
In his tv show see it now he showed McCarthy as a bully |
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How did MacArthur demise occur |
After he attacked representatives of the army live on air |
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What did cbs news show in 1965 |
Marines burning the village if cam me to the ground |
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What was the impact of Walter Cronkite 1968 documentary from the tet offensive |
Made mainstream the view that the government was being dishonestly optimistic about progress in the war |
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What was the impact of photo of Jane Fonda sitting in the seat of a north Vietnamese anti aircraft gun |
Weaponized the right |
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Where congressional Watergate hearings published live |
Yes |
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How long did Rowan and martinis laugh in run for |
1968-73 |
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What was the pov of Rowan and martinis laugh in |
Counter culture |
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Why was gereald Ford mocked |
For tripping on areaplan steps |
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What was carter hit by media focus on |
Brothers tax scandals, collapse at a marathon, attacked by a rabbit |
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What dramatic reporting undermined carter |
The Iran hostage crisis |
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What did the media not report about Roosevelt |
His polio |
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What did the media not report about kennedy |
His womanizing behaviour |
