La Guerre des mondes d'Orson Welles, 1938, les faux bulletins d'information, l'Amérique en panique totale : cette dernière partie est fausse. La panique nationale est un mythe. Les journaux de l'époque ont largement exagéré quelques incide…

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No. 2 of my “From the Cutting Room Floor.” It looks relatively benign, but the context makes it utterly racist and lays bare the Antisemitic dimension of how Blackness in interwar Germany was often framed (more on that in the book).

#AcademicSky #HistSky #WeimarRepublic #MediaHistory

July 2004 - Swindon Advertiser - Billie Piper makes it official by joining the TARDIS, finds herself a place in Cardiff next door to Charlotte Church where the two enjoy Cardiff nightlife.
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February 12, 2004 - The Northern Echo Teeside - A profile of Peter Purves as he appears in The Curse of Blue Peter special.
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April 10, 2003 - Evening Standard - A sign of the times as the BBC Special Effects Workshop is shuttered with computer technology taking the place of practical effects.
#BBC #SpecialEffects #ComputerTechnology #PracticalEffects #DigitalEffects #MediaHistory #SFX #VFX #TheTimesAreChanging

September 19, 2002 - Amesbury Journal - The Invisible Enemy is released on VHS as the BBC begins releasing older tiles on DVD.
#September19 #AmesburyJournal #TheInvisibleEnemy #VHS #DVD #BBC #HomeVideo #RetroTech #ThrowbackEntertainment #ClassicMovies #MediaHistory #Amesbury #Nostalgia

The Fairness Doctrine’s roots stretch back to the first major license renewals under the Radio Act of 1927.

Learn from Thomas Hazlett LIVE on Oct. 1st: broadbandbreakfast.com/telecom150/

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February 28, 2002 - The Northern Echo - A profile of Peter Davison as he appears on At Home with the Braithwaites.
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June 13, 2001 - The Independent - We find out what happened to that radio pilot Sylvester McCoy did as "The Death of Time" comes to the internet in a month's time.
#TheIndependent #SylvesterMcCoy #DoctorWho #DeathOfTime #TVHistory #MediaHistory #ClassicTV #TelevisionArchive #DoctorWhoNews

October 27, 2000 - Worcester News - A profile on Colin Baker.
#worcesternews #colinbaker #october27 #worcester #newspaperarchive #mediahistory #entertainmentnews #profile

Wie immer mit großzügigem Rezensionsteil, der open access publiziert wird. #bookhistory #mediahistory #skystorians

📣 New Podcast! "Downloaded: The Anarchists, Geeks, and Internet Outlaws Who Changed Everything" on @Spreaker #cybersecurity #digitalnomad #digitalpiracy #filehosting #hackers #internetarchives #internetculture #limewire #mediahistory #napster #nostalgia #podcasts #streamingwars #techhistory

November 13, 1999 - The Birmingham Post - A profile on Tom Baker.
#BirminghamPost #TomBaker #November13 #1999 #TVPresenter #BritishTelevision #Profile #NewspaperArchive #MediaHistory #DoctorWho

The Founders of the 'New York Times' Pledged to Cover 'Every Subject of Public Importance.' 175 Years Later, the Paper Continues to Publish 'All the News That's Fit to Print': Much has changed since the… @SmithsonianMag #NewYorkTimes #Journalism #PressFreedom #MediaHistory #PublicImportance

July 7, 1998 - Who would have thought that junked material was still in the copyright of the BBC? This tape trader didn't.
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📣 New Podcast! "The Day The World Stopped: Why These Crimes Changed Everything" on @Spreaker #documentary #forensics #georgefloyd #globaltrauma #historicalcrime #historicalmysteries #humanrights #jfk #jonestown #mediahistory #munich1972 #ojsimpson #podcastrecommendations #socialjustice #waco

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