A documentary-style adaptation of Kent Cooper's Barriers Down argues that monopolies and national controls over international news helped create prejudice and war. Dramatized examples show how distorted reporting encouraged nations to distrust one another, while the program traces Cooper's campaign for independent news exchange. Cooper appears in person at the end to call for a peace settlement guaranteeing worldwide freedom of the press, equal access to official information and communications, and protection against propaganda disguised as news.
This Words at War broadcast aired on November 21, 1944. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. Other credited names include Jack Costello as announcer.
The surviving recording runs about 29 minutes.
NBC wartime anthology dramatizing contemporary books about World War II, produced with Council on Books in Wartime/war-information context.
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