Bibliograph

Unsilent revolution, television news and American public life, 1948-1991, Robert J. Donovan and Ray Scherer

Type

Label

Unsilent revolution, television news and American public life, 1948-1991, Robert J. Donovan and Ray Scherer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-345) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Unsilent revolution

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

24845569

Responsibility statement

Robert J. Donovan and Ray Scherer

Series statement

Woodrow Wilson Center series

Sub title

television news and American public life, 1948-1991

Table Of 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 newsNewspapers 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

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Contributor