Broadcasting Canada's War: How the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Reported the Second World War
Abstract
Public Canadian radio was at the height of its influence during the Second World War. Reacting to the medium’s growing significance, members of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) accepted that they had a wartime responsibility to maintain civilian morale. The CBC thus unequivocally supported the national cause throughout all levels of its organization. Its senior administrations and programmers directed the CBC’s efforts to aid the Canadian war effort. Similarly, CBC news editors conceded that the necessities of total war and the intimate nature of radio news demanded that they adapt new measures of censorship wholly unique to the medium. At the frontlines, CBC war correspondents broadcast eye-witness testimonies and sounds of the conflict which mitigated the geographic distance between the war overseas and the Canadian homefront as never before. This unprecedented advance in the realism of war journalism propagandized the values and achievements of the Canadian armed forces.
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Keywords
Journalism, Mass Communications, Education--Technology, Canadian Studies, History--Modern, History--Canadian, Military Studies
Citation
Sweazey, C. (2017). Broadcasting Canada's War: How the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Reported the Second World War (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25173