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Author Alwood, Edward.

Title Dark days in the newsroom : McCarthyism aimed at the press / Edward Alwood
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 201 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Awakening the newsroom -- The politics of anticommunism -- Prelude to an investigation -- Reds in the newsroom -- The specter of McCarthy -- Dark clouds over the newsroom -- The investigation -- Deeper trouble -- Journalists and the First Amendment -- Living with the legacy. -- Epilogue
Summary Dark Days in the Newsroom traces how journalists became radicalized during the Depression era, only to become targets of Senator Joseph McCarthy and like-minded anti-Communist crusaders during the 1950s. Edward Alwood, a former news correspondent describes this remarkable story of conflict, principle, and personal sacrifice with noticeable élan. He shows how McCarthy's minions pried inside newsrooms thought to be sacrosanct under the First Amendment, and details how journalists mounted a heroic defense of freedom of the press while others secretly enlisted in the government's anti-commu
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-194) and index
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Subject McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957 -- Relations with journalists
SUBJECT McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957 -- Relations with journalists
McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957 fast
Subject Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Journalists -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Journalists -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Press and politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Journalists -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- General.
Anti-communist movements
Journalists
Journalists -- Political activity
Politics and government
Press and politics
Relations with journalists
MacCarthyismus
Pressefreiheit
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140466
United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140468
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006034205
ISBN 9781592133437
1592133436