Radio Mirror (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Radio Mirror
Date:
Nov 1936-Apr 1937
Publisher:
New York : Macfadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Radio mirror (Nov 1936-Apr 1937)
Leaf #:
000143
Language:
English
Collection:
Fan Magazines and Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Recorded Sound Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Radio Mirror (later known as Radio and Television Mirror) was a fan magazine for radio listeners and later TV viewers that includes profiles of the stars, visits to radio and television studios, and program listings. The early years in the 1930s show the interaction of motion pictures, recordings, the stage, radio and even politics. The role of radio in World War II is well covered in the 1940s, and by the 1950s the focus shifts to television and a new generation of personalities. -- David Pierce, 2013
Date Added:
July 18, 2024
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BREATH TAKING ACCOUNT OF BROADCASTING IN A BLOODY LAND HW« W° A SMALL, inner room — perhaps a closet — shut off from the rest of the house, airless. A loudspeaker, throttled down to a whisper, pouring its words into the straining ears of three or four men. The men, furtive, afraid to give all their attention to what the radio is bringing them lest they miss a warning knock from outside the door. . . . Another scene. A crowded cafe, its patrons intent upon the voice which blares from another loudspeaker on a counter. "Our glorious armies are advancing upon their objective! Within another day they will take it. They will burn the city! They must be ruthless! They must drive out the menace with whips . . . hang . . . shoot . . . kill!" That is radio in Spain under the revolution — a force unleashed by both sides in the struggle, a powerful weapon for both sides — and at the same time, a menace. Something to be used — something to be feared. In the opinion of the Columbia Broadcasting Company's most experienced news commentator, a man who spent weeks on friendly terms with both factions in the Spanish By JOHN EDWARDS civil war, radio is daily adding fuel to fires of hatred in an unhappy country. It is being used to misrepresent facts, distort truth, inspire hysterical courage in the fighters and fear in non-combatants. • And by doing all this, it is doing its bit toward prolonging a fratricidal war which otherwise might lose momentum and be brought to an end. Every day, the blame for some of the lives lost in Spain may be laid to radio — or rather, to be quite fair, to the use being made of radio. It is radio in a totally new role, one it is hard for us to conceive of as we listen to our amusing commercial broadcasts, our Kate Smiths and Bing Crosbys. The picture is not a pleasant one, but it is one we must see and study, 19