Comments on: ‘Shouldn’t they hear both sides? Radio Free Europe 1967 ad https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/shouldnt-they-hear-both-sides-radio-free-europe-1967-ad/ Cold War Radio History Mon, 11 May 2020 01:57:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 By: Curator https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/shouldnt-they-hear-both-sides-radio-free-europe-1967-ad/#comment-6557 Mon, 11 May 2020 01:42:28 +0000 http://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=9383#comment-6557 Thank you Richard for this additional information about this ad.

]]> By: Richard Cummings https://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/shouldnt-they-hear-both-sides-radio-free-europe-1967-ad/#comment-6555 Sun, 10 May 2020 21:13:36 +0000 http://www.coldwarradiomuseum.com/?p=9383#comment-6555 That particular advertisement was part of the The Advertising Council’s pubic service messages in support of the Radio Free Europe Fund that appeared in newspapers, magazines, radio and television. Here is one example you might find interesting of the public service announcement “Shouldn’t They Hear Both Sides?” that aired over the radio:

Radio Free Europe Fund – “News Announcement”
ONE-MINUTE RADIO SPOT #1
ANNOUNCER

When you hear a news bulletin on your radio, naturally you assume the event reported has taken place. But what if it hasn’t?
What it was a lie? And all the radio and T.V. stations and newspapers in this country…knowing it wasn’t true.,.carrieed It anyway?
How would you find out the truth? Well, if you lived In any of the Communist ruled countries in Eastern Europe, you’d have that problem every day. Chances are, you’d solve it by listening to Radio Free Europe, which was set up to give all the news to people who are flooded with Communist views on everything. Radio Free Europe it their free radio, their free press. Today, the young people of Eastern Europe are the ones to worry about. They’re the ones within ten years, will help change our world…for better or worse.

Shouldn’t they hear both sldes?

Support Radlo Free Europe. Send your contrlbutlons to Box 1967, Mount Vernon, N.Y.

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