Media nation : the political history of news in modern America

Media nation : the political history of news in modern America / edited by Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer.

From the creation of newspapers with national reach in the late nineteenth century to the lightning-fast dispatches and debates of today's Internet, the media have played an enormous role in modern American politics. Scholars of political history universally concede the importance of this relat...

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Other Authors: Schulman, Bruce J. (Editor), Zelizer, Julian E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Series:Politics and culture in modern America.
Subjects:
Mass media > Political aspects > United States > History.
Journalism > Political aspects > United States > History.
Press and politics > United States > History.
Government and the press > United States > History.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Government and the press
Journalism > Political aspects
Mass media > Political aspects
Press and politics
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Proprietary interest : merchants, journalists, and antimonopoly in the 1880s / Richard R. John
  • Progressive political culture and the widening scope of local newspapers : 1880-1930 / Julia Guarneri
  • The ominous clang : fears of propaganda from World War I to World War II / David Greenberg
  • When the "mainstream media" was conservative : media criticism in the age of reform / Sam Lebovic
  • "We're all in this thing together" : Cold War consensus in the exclusive social world of Washington reporters / Kathryn McGarr
  • Objectivity and its discontents : the struggle for the soul of American journalism in the 1960s and 1970s / Matthew Pressman
  • "No on 14" : Hollywood celebrities, the Civil Rights movement, and the California open housing debate / Emilie Raymond
  • From "faith in facts" to "fair and balanced" : conservative media, liberal bias, and the origins of balance / Nicole Hemmer
  • Abe Rosenthal's Project X : the editorial process leading to publication of the Pentagon Papers / Kevin Lerner
  • "Ideological plugola," "elitist gossip," and the need for cable television / Kathryn Cramer Brownell
  • How Washington helped create the contemporary media : ending the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 / Julian E. Zelizer
  • The multiple political roles of American journalism / Michael Schudson.

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