Thomas Edison initially expected his new phonograph to be used as a kind of telephone answering machine.

In the 1920s, CBS operated two radio networks, CBS-Red and CBS-Blue.

Modern artists such as Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and Charlie Chaplin (Modern Times) predicted a future in which technology would lead to less oppression and more individual freedom.

Modern artists such as Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and Charlie Chaplin (Modern Times) predicted a future in which technology would lead to less oppression and more individual freedom.

The most common type of public relations is done in-house by individual companies and organizations.

Between 1948 and 1952, hundreds of new licenses were issued to construct and operate TV stations in the United States.

Under the 1998 tobacco settlement, all of the major cigarette companies agreed to pull their advertising from general audience magazines that had young readers.

Frederick Douglass’s North Star was an antislavery paper published by a former slave.

In the late 1950s, singer Little Richard stopped performing rock and roll because he believed it was the “devil’s music.”

Publicity is information a person, company, or institution pays to have published or broadcast in the news media.