Right, thought I'd kick start a discussion into this week's work
I just had a quick read through of the second topic for this week on the radio transcript.
I think that Goebbels sounded pretty ambitious towards his words on how the radio will dramatically change the German population. However I think we can understand him as he says that he doesn't want the radio to turn into a spineless servent to political interests.
He does set out his goals in some reason as he wanted the radio to play the main source of information to the public. However at the end he goes back to his original behaviour and sounds like he only wants to build this German radio industry primarly as a business to make money which will apparently bring cultues together and strengthen the German media.
Anyway thats my initial thought on the topic.
Anyone else had a read through? x
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I've just had a quick read of the speech as well, and agree with your intital thoughts. Goebbels ambitious in the sense he assumes that the German audience would be submissive to what is being told through the German radio. Although this was 70/80 years back, were the audiences aware of what the media can do to a society if it's compared with today and how the media is said to have played a major part in worsening the economical state of todays society?
ReplyDeleteThats about it for now! x
Goebbels was lying when he said he he didn't want it to be subservient to political interests -that's exactly what he did want. And as Hitler's director of propaganda -that's exactly what he went ahead and did.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with this, chap! Maybe it's just me, but do you not find it very difficult to feel positive about ANYTHING that involves the Nazi party? Maybe I'm just thinking too much into it, but I couldn't help thinking while reading the entire speech; "This guy's a tool. This guy's a tool." etc.
ReplyDeleteRINCY :)
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