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Learning to Love the Microphone - Episode 2

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Anne Perkins explores how politicians at the dawn of mass democracy utilised the new media of radio and newsreel. As mass democracy and new mass media were born in the 1920s, the first spin doctors were on hand to help politicians use them. Anne Perkins asks what today's politicians could learn about using new media.