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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... papers whose politics they explicitly reflected in their dispatches . Straightforward news reporting emerged out of the wire services . During the Civil War , the Washington correspondent for the Associated Press apologized for ...
... papers whose politics they explicitly reflected in their dispatches . Straightforward news reporting emerged out of the wire services . During the Civil War , the Washington correspondent for the Associated Press apologized for ...
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... papers of leading Washington journalists among its collections , along with back issues of the publications for ... paper and questioned it XVIII PREFACE.
... papers of leading Washington journalists among its collections , along with back issues of the publications for ... paper and questioned it XVIII PREFACE.
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... paper and questioned it in a vigorous style well familiar to the presidents she had confronted at press con- ferences . A panel of veteran journalists at a seminar on " Eisenhower and the Media " in ... papers of his father PREFACE XIX.
... paper and questioned it in a vigorous style well familiar to the presidents she had confronted at press con- ferences . A panel of veteran journalists at a seminar on " Eisenhower and the Media " in ... papers of his father PREFACE XIX.
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... papers slashed expenses and cut paychecks in half . The less fortunate lost their jobs as Washington news bureaus closed down . More papers depended on wire service reports instead of hiring their own correspondents . Displaced report ...
... papers slashed expenses and cut paychecks in half . The less fortunate lost their jobs as Washington news bureaus closed down . More papers depended on wire service reports instead of hiring their own correspondents . Displaced report ...
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... papers that the president read in bed every morn- ing , principally the New York Times , New York Herald Tribune ... paper and the Chicago Tribune " the least fair and reliable . " The Times operated the largest newspaper bureau in ...
... papers that the president read in bed every morn- ing , principally the New York Times , New York Herald Tribune ... paper and the Chicago Tribune " the least fair and reliable . " The Times operated the largest newspaper bureau in ...
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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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Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps Donald A. Ritchie Takmarkað sýnishorn - 2005 |
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