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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... staff for their Washington bureaus . Foreign correspondents regarded the American capital as a hardship post . Until then , New York City rather than Washington stood as the nation's news center . The national capital provided poor soil ...
... staff for their Washington bureaus . Foreign correspondents regarded the American capital as a hardship post . Until then , New York City rather than Washington stood as the nation's news center . The national capital provided poor soil ...
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... staff , exceeded his orders and adopted a more sweeping plan to rid the capital of insurrection . As reporters and other civilians gawked on the sidewalks , infantrymen and mounted cavalry from Fort Myer paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue ...
... staff , exceeded his orders and adopted a more sweeping plan to rid the capital of insurrection . As reporters and other civilians gawked on the sidewalks , infantrymen and mounted cavalry from Fort Myer paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue ...
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... staff shaped Roosevelt's public image more thoroughly than that of any of his predecessors , literally staging his every move to camouflage his paralysis from polio . News reporters and photographers willingly cooperated in this ...
... staff shaped Roosevelt's public image more thoroughly than that of any of his predecessors , literally staging his every move to camouflage his paralysis from polio . News reporters and photographers willingly cooperated in this ...
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... staff size . The Times fielded more correspondents at the capital than the struggling Washington Post employed on its entire national reporting staff . Publisher Adolph S. Ochs intended the Times to be the nation's " paper of record ...
... staff size . The Times fielded more correspondents at the capital than the struggling Washington Post employed on its entire national reporting staff . Publisher Adolph S. Ochs intended the Times to be the nation's " paper of record ...
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... staff's excessive deference to their pub- lisher rather than the quality of their reporting . Colonel McCormick sent good reporters to Washington but subverted their efforts at objectivity . He ran the Washington bureau personally ...
... staff's excessive deference to their pub- lisher rather than the quality of their reporting . Colonel McCormick sent good reporters to Washington but subverted their efforts at objectivity . He ran the Washington bureau personally ...
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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 |
Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps Donald A. Ritchie Takmarkað sýnishorn - 2005 |
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