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7/1/38
RADIO HAS IMPORTANT PLACE ON N.E.A. PROGRAM
Radio as an educational medium occupied an important place on the program of the National Education Association con~ vention in New York City this week.
One of the highlights was a demonstration of the technique of adapting radio's educational facilities to the ordinary schoolroom by the CBS Department of Education. High School pupils, who witnessed the demonstration, "easily eclipsed a group of professional radio artists as the center of interest", according to the New York Times.
CBS presented a slightly revised dramatization of "Propaganda", an "American School of the Air" program that was awarded the Institute of Education by Radio's prize as the outstanding broadcast for American schools in 1937. H. V. Kaltenborn acted as commentator.
After the simulated broadcast, Dr. Ignatius Donnelly Taubeneck, Director of Social Studies and Public Speaking at the Bronxville High School, took charge of the class and guided it through a forty-minute spirited discussion of the program.
The pupils "expressed their enlightenment from the method of presentation of the avenues and techniques of propa¬ ganda, and then challenged any one to inform them how to dis¬ tinguish authentic statements from propaganda", the Times reported. "They have, it appeared, a highly developed skepti¬ cism toward facts presented to them by the press, the radio and the school system.
"They asked the audience, they asked one another, and especially they asked the radio commentator H. V. Kaltenborn, how to know which sources to trust and which to distrust. They haz¬ arded the belief that if the newspapers, the radio and the school system could be 'cleaned up' their doubts might be resolved.
"Unanimously they announced their belief in free speech and concurred in the declaration that as long as such discussions could be held democracy is effective in this country, and that counter-propaganda is the best defense against propaganda except that in dictator countries there is no counter-propaganda. "
Earlier in the week Dr. James Rowland Angell, Presi¬ dent Emeritus of Yale University, hailed the radio as a force for the promotion of democratic ideals in an address on radio in education at the Center Theatre in Radio City.
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