Media influence
What Media influence means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Shocking media coverage of the Anniston bomb and subsequent beatings, which compelled Attorney General Robert Kennedy to enforce desegregation on interstate bus routes.
The role of investigative journalism, such as journalist Seymour Hersh exposing the massacre in November 1969, in bringing the story to the public.
Topics that use Media influence
- Option 33: Key topic 2: Protest, progress and radicalism, 1960–75 - 1 Developments, 1960–62 ● The significance of Greensboro and the sit-in movement. (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Option 33: Key topic 4: Reactions to, and the end of, US involvement in Vietnam, 1964–75 - 1 Opposition to the war (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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