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Essay / The Importance of Broadcasting - 889
Many years ago, nations used radio to transmit messages across the world; World War I saw some of these activities "such as US President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points (to end the war) and Vladimir Lenin's messages to Tsarist Russian soldiers on the front lines encouraging them to desert and return home were sent across Europe. » (Browne, 2003). However, the vast majority of Europeans did not receive these messages because standard radio receivers of the time were not sold to the public (Browne, 2003). Then governments allowed the public to use radio, which was the dominant form of broadcasting around the world. Thus, the main reason for this broadcast was to serve the public interest and the broadcasters were free from commercial and political pressure and strived to inform and educate the public through quality programs such as the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) (Tracey 2015). However, radio is one of the most used weapons during the Cold War, referring to (René, 2010) where they used radio to transmit the reports of the major war crimes trials of the time, e.g. in 1960s Germany. Finally, governments around the world could use space in a new way to improve