| Description |
xii, 357 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Woodrow Wilson Center series |
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Woodrow Wilson Center series.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 -- |
| Analysis |
Television News programmes |
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United States |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-345) and index |
| Subject |
Television broadcasting of news -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93001744
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-1993. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89000002
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| Author |
Scherer, Ray.
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| LC no. |
91041189 |
| ISBN |
0521418291 (hardback) |
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0521428629 (paperback) |
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