Now the News: The Story of Broadcast Journalism

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Columbia University Press, Jun 1, 2010 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 575 pages

-- Walter Cronkite

 

Contents

The Natal Circumstances
xiii
Growing Pains and Pleasures
9
The Founding Fathers
21
The Worlds Most Famous Baby Has Been Kidnapped
27
The PressRadio War
35
The First Fine Careless Rapture
41
The Oracles
50
Time Marches On
62
Time Out for Ratings
262
The Alarm Clock War
265
Magazines of the Air
276
In Greater Depth and in Broader Scope
295
Let Freedom Ring
314
If Youre White and a Male OK
321
A Season for Sorrow
329
War The People Watched
338

Hello America London Calling
67
Radios First War Correspondents
72
Munich
77
Steady Reliable and Restrained
87
War The People Listened
101
Ankara to Singapore
115
The Battle of Britain
125
We Interrupt This Program
131
Into North Africa and Italy
139
And Into Normandy
147
Victory in Europe
157
The Other War
166
A New Day
175
Radios Revolution
184
Edward R Murrow VP
195
The Greatest Political Show on Earth
204
The Roving Eye
214
Era of Fear
226
The Electronic Politician
241
Korea
252
Knights of the Camera
355
Out of This World
361
Those Panel Shows
367
Conversations
373
Jewel in the Crown
379
Nixon vs the Nets
401
Electronic Coverage Congress and the Courts
410
The Longest Battle
417
Cable A Major Competitor
428
The Fourth Revolution
434
Local Aint So Local Any More
438
Time of Trial
444
End of an Era
451
A New Age
456
Chronology
465
Notes
473
Bibliography
509
Index
523
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Edward Bliss, Jr. is the editor of In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961.



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