| Description |
xii, 357 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Woodrow Wilson Center series
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-345) and index. |
| Contents |
Police dogs, firehoses, and television cameras: shockwaves from the south -- Exit Joe McCarthy -- Television news and the ups and downs of Richard Nixon: the 1960 election -- Television's march on Cape Canaveral -- Television's supreme hour: the Kennedy funeral -- In the eye of the storm: television news and the urban riots -- Vietnam, 1965-1967 --Vietnam, 1968- 1975 -- Nixon's presidency: a difficult time for television news and the press -- Nixon in China and Watergate --Infuriating pictures from Iran: television news, Jimmy Carter, and the Iranian hostage crisis -- The call: relief for the Ethiopian famine, 1984 -- The White House in the television age -- The television president: Reagan on prime time --The television occupation of Capitol Hill -- From Dulles to Gorbachev: diplomacy and terrorism in the television age --Television and the transformation of American politics, 1952-1984 -- 1988 -- Profound change in print journalism: the invasion by television news. |
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(cont.) Newspapers in the age of television -- Television's intrusion in the press box -- Two different mediums: newspapers and television news -- Conclusion: Tiananmen Square, the Berlin Wall, the Persian Gulf War, and the Russian coup. |
| Subject |
Television broadcasting of news -- History -- 20th century.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-1993.
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| Added Author |
Scherer, Ray.
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| ISBN |
0521418291 (hardback) |
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0521428629 (pbk.) |
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