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Thanks to cameras and smartphones, police brutality can be found all around YouTube. Thanks to amateur filmmakers, various governments have tried to rein in police power. It is a testament to the power of communication. It makes me wonder what the world would be like in modern communications had appeared sooner than in OTL.

Let's say in the 1920s, David Sarnoff and Philo Farnsworth were able to collaborate and advance telecommunications, creating not only affordable TVs, but an analog version of CNN in the 1930s.

What if European fascism and Nazism, the struggles of the Great Depression, and the racism of the American South had been captured on what is known OTL as prime time? Could 24 hour television news have altered the course of world history if it appeared sooner?
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