PROPAGANDA BY AIR
BLESSING OR CURSE?
Broadcasting was fast becoming not a blessing but a curse, said Professor J. Coatman, news editor of the -British Broadcasting Corporation, speaking at the International Colonial Institute Conference. Delegates from a number of European countries were considering methods of spreading thought and ideas in the colonies. Professor Coatman said that broadcasting to the natives of Africa was a matter of extraordinary difficulty. “Broadcasting,” he added, “is being used in various parts of the world not only for the purposes of policy, but for the purposes of military policy. We must keep that out of Africa.” Mr C. F. Strickland suggested a system of small broadcasting stations of different wave-lengths, with sets capable of receiving only on the local wave-length. A foreign Power would then be unable to broadcast to more than a small section of the population at one time.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 26 November 1936, Page 4
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