Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press CorpsOxford University Press, 15. mar. 2005 - 432 síður Donald Ritchie offers a vibrant chronicle of news coverage in our nation's capital, from the early days of radio and print reporting and the heyday of the wire services to the brave new world of the Internet. Beginning with 1932, when a newly elected FDR energized the sleepy capital, Ritchie highlights the dramatic changes in journalism that have occurred in the last seven decades. We meet legendary columnists--including Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, and Drew Pearson --as well as the great investigative reporters, from Paul Y. Anderson to the two green Washington Post reporters who launched the political story of the decade--Woodward and Bernstein. We read of the rise of radio news--fought tooth and nail by the print barons--and of such pioneers as Edward R. Murrow, H. V. Kaltenborn, and Elmer Davis. Ritchie also offers a vivid history of TV news, from the early days of Meet the Press, to Huntley and Brinkley and Walter Cronkite, to the cable revolution led by C-SPAN and CNN. In addition, he compares political news on the Internet to the alternative press of the '60s and '70s; describes how black reporters slowly broke into the white press corps (helped mightily by FDR's White House); discusses path-breaking woman reporters such as Sarah McClendon and Helen Thomas, and much more. From Walter Winchell to Matt Drudge, the people who cover Washington politics are among the most colorful and influential in American news. Reporting from Washington offers an unforgettable portrait of these figures as well as of the dramatic changes in American journalism in the twentieth century. |
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... Edwards, who covered Washington for the Chicago Tribune from the 1930s to the 1970s, admitted that when all else failed he would cite himself as “a veteran Washington observer.” Sometimes the “informed sources” were simply other ...
... Edwards, who covered Washington for the Chicago Tribune from the 1930s to the 1970s, admitted that when all else failed he would cite himself as “a veteran Washington observer.” Sometimes the “informed sources” were simply other ...
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... Edwards, who described his chief as “the kind of a guy that used a cane when he didn't need one.” For all his affectations, Henning had worked his way up from a sports stringer to police reporter before being tapped for the Chicago ...
... Edwards, who described his chief as “the kind of a guy that used a cane when he didn't need one.” For all his affectations, Henning had worked his way up from a sports stringer to police reporter before being tapped for the Chicago ...
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... Edwards, Chesly Manly, and Walter Trohan would give the Roosevelt administration no end of trouble.” Willard Edwards came to Washington in 1933 as a temporary replacement, and stretched his stay to forty years. A Prohibition-era police ...
... Edwards, Chesly Manly, and Walter Trohan would give the Roosevelt administration no end of trouble.” Willard Edwards came to Washington in 1933 as a temporary replacement, and stretched his stay to forty years. A Prohibition-era police ...
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... Edwards read the Tribune editorials religiously. “I was conscious what our line was, and I didn't violate that line,” he explained. When he realized that Colonel McCormick regarded the New Deal “with a loathing that can't be described ...
... Edwards read the Tribune editorials religiously. “I was conscious what our line was, and I didn't violate that line,” he explained. When he realized that Colonel McCormick regarded the New Deal “with a loathing that can't be described ...
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... Edward T. Folliard, “and we would go to him for help just like you would talk to a science reporter on missiles.” As Lautier was a lifelong Republican, leaders of his party also turned to him for advice and assistance. Once when Simeon ...
... Edward T. Folliard, “and we would go to him for help just like you would talk to a science reporter on missiles.” As Lautier was a lifelong Republican, leaders of his party also turned to him for advice and assistance. Once when Simeon ...
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3 Radio Voices | 47 |
4 The Friends of Joe McCarthy | 70 |
5 News Center of the World | 92 |
The Wire Services | 111 |
7 The Business of Being Opinionated | 133 |
9 The Cameras Eye | 183 |
10 Washington Deceit | 218 |
11 Company Town Papers | 241 |
12 Anyone with a Modem | 270 |
Washington DC 2001 | 290 |
A Note on Sources | 303 |
Notes | 309 |
Index | 375 |
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