Fact Checking the Media – Tom Donnan pt 2

The media has always had a huge influence on public opinion. People rely on the media for accurate information on events that concern them and their family, livelihood, etc.

Back in the founding of this nation, it was understood that the public’s ability to know the truth of what their government was doing at all times was one of the “Checks and Balances” that could hold the government from gaining too much control of the people. That was one of the main reasons the First Amendment was agreed to to and added to the Bill of Rights.

Freedom of Speech. Freedom of the Press. The right to assemble. All of these are basic rights afforded to us under the Constitution. They have been long protected. The media has always been a stabilizer between hyperbole and lies. Fact versus fiction. Exposing corruption and governmental abuses.

But, in the last few years, we have seen widespread bias concerning the reporting of newsworthy events. It seems as if the media has aligned itself with one political party over another. It seems like the wrongs of one political affiliation go virtually unnoticed while every little idle word on the other side gets blown up into an “impeachable offense.”

This is one reason Donald Trump has used Twitter to get his side of the story out to the public. He knows the media will not give his version of information to the public. So he goes around the media.

What you may not know though, is this is not the first time this has happened. President Franklin Roosevelt used the latest technology to do an “end run” around the newspaper publishers who were hostile to his policies. So he took to the “new mass communication” method of his day, which was Radio!  He used, what became known as his, “fireside chats” with America, to get his ideas and policies out to the American people.

Anyway, to help us dive deeper into this discussion and how the media can control the minds of the people and make them believe what may not even be a true story, is my good friend, Tom Donnan.

The first major controversy about, what we could call, “truth in broadcasting,” occurred on a Sunday night in October of 1938. Tom, would care to elaborate on what happened that night that caused such a controversy?  END PART ONE

Why would people believe that that program was real?

*** NOTE:  We discussed a realistic movie from 1983 and how it had fooled ME when I first started watching the “news broadcast.” The made for TV movie was called, “Special Bulletin” and it aired on March 20, 1983  –  Here is a link to the YouTube video of the movie:  https://youtu.be/cDZQsVNZ3SE  ***

So, what were some of the responses of the listeners to that program?

They actually got ahold of Orson Wells in the middle of the radio program and did an interview?

How does all of this relate to what we are seeing in the news outlets today?

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