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Originally Posted by warellis
Aren't most local libraries still kinda small and such today, along with bookshops?
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Yes, but; even in a small town you can get inter-library loans. In period this may only happen in cities with several branches.
One issue on newsreels, radio, and newspapers. They will look/sound rather amateur by our standards.
Newsreels will resemble the network pre-cable broadcast news. Few sources to see, relatively uniform presentation, particularly with wartime censorship.
Radio will be a mishmash of network and local providers.
News papers will most resemble the current cable news systems, any city large enough to have stop lights will have at least two papers, one leftish, one rightish, the range based on local politics, many will have morning and evening editions. Also there will be a number of ethnic and issues based news papers, i.e. Jewish, German, Negro for ethnic, and Labor/Union or KKK papers for issues.