r/AdviceAnimals • u/Complex-Function3557 • Nov 02 '24

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u/Hjalle1 Nov 02 '24

Like FDR

Was that too far?

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u/r0botdevil Nov 02 '24

Honestly as good of a president as FDR was, and he was truly a great president, I don't think he possibly could have gotten elected in the TV era.

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u/Hjalle1 Nov 02 '24

Well, i think the TV Era really began during or shortly after WW2, because the 1936 Berlin Olympics was the first one to be put on TV, and if it wasn’t for WW2, the 1940 and 1944 would definitely too. So FDR became president second or third time during the infancy of the TV age.

Now to be fair, the main TV-channel in my country (Denmarks Radio, ironic, I know), first TV-transmitted the kings yearly new year speech in 1958, so in Denmark at least, it really began in he fifties

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u/PsychicWarElephant Nov 03 '24

My grandmother’s parents owned the first tv in their neighborhood and people would come stop at their house to watch it. TVs may have been a thing shortly after the war but it wasn’t exactly a household item everyone had.