Word: siepmann
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...afternoon, starting at 2 o'clock, "Propaganda and the European War" will be treated by Charles Siepmann; Alan Dudley, of the British Library of Information; Professors Sidney B. Fay '96, and Jacob A. DeHaas; and Heiurich Bruening...
Education, Siepmann feels, should not be defined in a narrow academic sense, but rather as a stimulus to original and critical thought. Programs interpreting current affairs and featuring controversial issues, can lead the populace to understand other points of view than their own and to modify their preconceptions as a result, he says...
Thus an integrated public opinion can be approximated, and an attitude of intellectual curiosity encouraged: For this reason radio is a "tremendous, powerful, and exciting: new instrument whose possibilities have only begun to the explored, Siepmann declares...
...Siepmann's work will carry him throughout the country and will bring him into contact with the important radio executives and with the Universities such as Chicago which are already interested in radio education in the popular sense...
With regard to commercialism of radio, Mr. Siepmann was non-committal. He does not feel that it is incompatible with radio education, "especially if we get a better idea of education, and see it as the interpretation of life and its values. Such programs can have a high entertainment value...