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Tussen vernieuwing en herstel: de pers in de eerste naoorlogse jaren

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Abstract

After a relatively short-lived period of high hopes for changes in Dutch society according to some of the ideals of the war-time resistance movement, the Netherlands soon passed to the order of the day. In the mass media the restoration of the pre-war system seemed to come even sooner and to be more complete, than in the rest of society. That picture, however, may need some adjusting. The highly regulated market-place for newspapers of 1945 differed in many ways from the situation the press had known before the war. Important, but extremely controversial, issues were the purging of the press and efforts to create a new press order, both the heritage of and a reaction to the lamentable conduct of an important part of the Dutch press during the German occupation. Even about such issues as the abolition of newsprint distribution and the return to the deregulated newspaper market- which were treated by the press itself as non-controversial-serious differences existed within the newspaper industry. The controversies in part reflected the differences between the ideas and interests of the former underground press of the resistance and those of the newspapers that had been continued during the occupation.

How to Cite:

Wieten, J., (1987) “Tussen vernieuwing en herstel: de pers in de eerste naoorlogse jaren”, Massacommunicatie : Wetenschappelijk Kwartaaltijdschrift voor Communicatie en Informatie 15(4), 317–330.