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100 1  Schlosser, Nicholas J.,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/no2010170775|eauthor. 
245 10 Cold War on the airwaves :|bthe radio propaganda war 
       against East Germany /|cNicholas J. Schlosser. 
264  1 Urbana :|bUniversity of Illinois Press,|c[2015] 
300    1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) :|billustrations 
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504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 2  "Founded as a counterweight to the Communist broadcasters 
       in East Germany, Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) 
       became one of the most successful public information 
       operations conducted against the Soviet Bloc. Cold War on 
       the Airwaves examines the Berlin-based organization's 
       history and influence on the political worldview of the 
       people--and government--on the other side of the Iron 
       Curtain. Nicholas Schlosser draws on broadcast transcripts,
       internal memoranda, listener letters, and surveys by the 
       U.S. Information Agency to profile RIAS. Its mission: to 
       undermine the German Democratic Republic with propaganda 
       that, ironically, gained in potency by obeying the rules 
       of objective journalism. Throughout, Schlosser examines 
       the friction inherent in such a contradictory project and 
       propaganda's role in shaping political culture. He also 
       portrays how RIAS's primarily German staff influenced its 
       outlook and how the organization both competed against its
       rivals in the GDR and pushed communist officials to alter 
       their methods in order to keep listeners. From the 
       occupation of Berlin through the airlift to the 
       construction of the Berlin Wall, Cold War on the Airwaves 
       offers an absorbing view of how public diplomacy played 
       out at a flashpoint of East-West tension"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
520 2  "Cold War on the Airwaves offers a history of the Berlin-
       based American propaganda broadcaster Radio in the 
       American Sector (RIAS) and its impact on the political 
       culture of the German Democratic Republic during the early
       Cold War. Founded in 1946 to serve as America's official 
       radio station in Berlin and as a counterweight to the 
       Communist-controlled broadcasters in East Germany, RIAS 
       quickly became one of the United States' most successful 
       public information operations conducted against the Soviet
       Bloc. Nicholas Schlosser examines how the RIAS fast became
       one of the most trusted sources for news inside East 
       Germany during a dynamic period following World War II 
       that included the Berlin Airlift, the East German rising 
       of 1954, and building of the Berlin Wall. Drawing on a 
       wealth of broadcast transcripts, internal memoranda, 
       listener letters, and surveys of East Germans by the U.S. 
       Information Agency, he attributes RIAS's success to its 
       conscious effort to balance accuracy with partisanship. 
       Claiming objective journalism, RIAS reporters nevertheless
       used the language, style, and tone of neutral broadcasting
       to openly attack the Soviet Union and undermine the GDR's 
       legitimacy. Through information from East German citizens 
       visiting or escaping to West Berlin, the reporters 
       broadcast stories to counter official statements from East
       Germany's ruling party, reported on bad economic 
       conditions, and encouraged listeners to oppose the GDR. 
       Thus, as with other U.S. anticommunist public information 
       programs, RIAS attempted to resolve the inherent 
       contradictions of conducting a propaganda operation in 
       name of creating a democratic society built upon an 
       objective press"--|cProvided by publisher. 
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aSchlosser, Nicholas J.|tCold War on the 
       airwaves.|dUrbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
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