Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, June, 1994 by Martin
Doherty

For the greater part of the twentieth century, radio was without question
the most powerful means of international communication. Until relatively
recently, radio was the only medium with a truly global reach, capable of
delivering a message simultaneously into the homes and minds of millions of
listeners around the planet. Given its range, it is scarcely surprising that
radio was rapidly taken up as a medium for the transmission of political
propaganda. This was particularly true in times of international conflict,
and during the Second World War, radio played a key role in the propaganda
campaigns of both Axis and Allied powers. Radio was used as a transmission
mechanism for morale boosting material for domestic consumption; it was also
employed as a weapon in the psychological war waged against the enemy...

See very interesting article at:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...14/ai_15588719

(Finn Krone-DEN, hcdx Oct 7)