When Media Was for You and Me — with Fred Turner

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🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In 1940, a group of 60 American intellectuals formed the Committee for National Morale. “They’ve largely been forgotten,” says Fred Turner, a professor of communications at Stanford University, but their work had a profound impact on public opinion. They produced groundbreaking films and art exhibitions. They urged viewers to stop, reflect and think for themselves, and in so doing, they developed a set of design principles that reimagined how media could make us feel more calm, reflective, empathetic; in short, more democratic.

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0:00.0	Now friends, I'm just an average American, but I'm an American American
0:06.0	and some of the things I see in this country of ours make my blood boil.
0:10.0	That's a clip from a film called Don't Be a Sucker, produced by the U.S. Department of Defense during World War II.
0:16.0	It's propaganda, of course, but propaganda designed to inoculate the public against fascism.
0:22.0	Now you know them. You know what they stand for,
0:25.0	and it's up to you and me to fight them.
0:27.0	So what is the Democratic response to a voice like this?
0:31.0	Fight them and destroy them before they destroy us.
0:34.4	In the case of this film, the Democratic response to a fictional fascist comes quietly, almost
0:39.4	as a sigh.
0:40.4	I've heard this kind of talk before, but I've never expected to hear it in America.
0:46.6	Two spectators walk away from the crowd and sit down on a park bench.
0:50.0	Do you believe in that kind of talk?
0:52.0	I don't know, it makes pretty good sense to me.
0:54.0	There's no narration, just a respectful conversation.
0:57.0	What about you, you aren't American, I?
0:59.0	I was born in Hungary, but now I am an American citizen. And I have seen what this kind of talk can do.
1:06.0	A conversation that invites you to think of yourself as an individual.
1:09.6	You all belong to minority groups.
1:11.9	I was born in Hungary.
1:13.5	You are a Mason.
1:14.4	These are minorities.
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