BRITAIN IN WORLD WAR II

How Did Propaganda Impact Britain In World War II



How Did Propaganda Impact Britain In World War II

Introduction

The government propaganda activity was in full force during the interwar period. In World War II was used to support international policy actions. The most notable case is the radio. The films and newsreels were filmed media of the working class. In general, you get the effectiveness of censorship and propaganda.

The television was transformed from a curiosity into a tool for a wide area of penetration of the mass, especially in urban areas, roughly between the years 1947-1952. As Lyndon LaRouche has observed, this coincided with a very critical moment of national psychological life. The dream of millions of veterans of World War II and their hopes of building a better world, had crashed to the ground before the moral corruption of the Truman administration and the subsequent economic crisis. These veterans retired to their family life in their jobs, their homes, in their living rooms. And at the heart of those living rooms there was a new television, whose images trivial assured that the choices morally outrageous that they had made were the right ones.

The first television was heavily influenced by the models already tested the radio, as described by the Radio Research Project: the "situation comedy", or "sitcom", quizzes, variety shows, sports and "soap". Many were in serial form, with characters, if not stories, linked together. All were trivial and intentionally designed to be so.

Poster

Printed in early 1940s, the poster given below was designed as a propagandiost tool to be distributed in West Africa.

The poster depicts soldiers from Germany running the West Africans and attacking them with weapons. The text implies that the Germans are cruel and rob people and never pay for ...