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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... Washington correspondents as a whole profess to report the news objectively. Their jobs require an ability to stand ... correspondent for the Associated Press apologized for reporting “merely dry matters of fact and detail.” Because his ...
... Washington correspondents as a whole profess to report the news objectively. Their jobs require an ability to stand ... correspondent for the Associated Press apologized for reporting “merely dry matters of fact and detail.” Because his ...
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... Washington journalism's code of objectivity was aptly expressed in a notice that the eminent columnist, correspondent, and bureau chief James Reston posted at the New York Times bureau in June 1963: We are obviously going into a savage ...
... Washington journalism's code of objectivity was aptly expressed in a notice that the eminent columnist, correspondent, and bureau chief James Reston posted at the New York Times bureau in June 1963: We are obviously going into a savage ...
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... reporter.” Thomas Winship, who served as a Washington correspondent and bureau chief on his way to becoming editor of the Boston Globe, took an early stand against American intervention in Vietnam. He justified it as one of those ...
... reporter.” Thomas Winship, who served as a Washington correspondent and bureau chief on his way to becoming editor of the Boston Globe, took an early stand against American intervention in Vietnam. He justified it as one of those ...
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... Washington correspondents as “a class of many of almost incredible credulity.” Mencken considered the average Washington correspondent “honest enough, as honesty goes in the United States. . . . What ails him mainly is that he is a man ...
... Washington correspondents as “a class of many of almost incredible credulity.” Mencken considered the average Washington correspondent “honest enough, as honesty goes in the United States. . . . What ails him mainly is that he is a man ...
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The History of the Washington Press Corps Donald A. Ritchie. While reporters seek sources, sources seek reporters. Leaks became a prime instrument of government. In the 1940s, Bruce Catton—who toiled as a Washington correspondent before ...
The History of the Washington Press Corps Donald A. Ritchie. While reporters seek sources, sources seek reporters. Leaks became a prime instrument of government. In the 1940s, Bruce Catton—who toiled as a Washington correspondent before ...
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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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