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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Síða ix
... Washing- ton budgets and their news coverage of government and politics . By then , opin- ion polls showed reporters ranking lower than politicians in public standing , with three - quarters of American adults perceiving some form of ...
... Washing- ton budgets and their news coverage of government and politics . By then , opin- ion polls showed reporters ranking lower than politicians in public standing , with three - quarters of American adults perceiving some form of ...
Síða xiv
... Wash- ington correspondent before devoting himself to writing history - defined leaks as information that officials were " either unwilling or unready " to reveal for- mally but would divulge to reporters they trusted not to reveal ...
... Wash- ington correspondent before devoting himself to writing history - defined leaks as information that officials were " either unwilling or unready " to reveal for- mally but would divulge to reporters they trusted not to reveal ...
Síða xv
... Washing- ton correspondent Allen Drury employed the press corps as a Greek chorus , identified not by their names but by their news outlets . This device advanced the plot brilliantly but diminished the corps's individualism . His novel ...
... Washing- ton correspondent Allen Drury employed the press corps as a Greek chorus , identified not by their names but by their news outlets . This device advanced the plot brilliantly but diminished the corps's individualism . His novel ...
Síða xx
... Wash- ington bureau , and the Congressional Research Service , generously shared observations from his research on Arthur Krock . David Dunaway of the Univer- sity of New Mexico sharpened my thinking about radio history . Matthew ...
... Wash- ington bureau , and the Congressional Research Service , generously shared observations from his research on Arthur Krock . David Dunaway of the Univer- sity of New Mexico sharpened my thinking about radio history . Matthew ...
Síða 2
... Wash- ington reporters celebrated his elevation to the presidency , they watched in dismay as he dismantled most of the public relations apparatus that had got- ten him there . Once inaugurated president , Hoover preferred to deal with ...
... Wash- ington reporters celebrated his elevation to the presidency , they watched in dismay as he dismantled most of the public relations apparatus that had got- ten him there . Once inaugurated president , Hoover preferred to deal with ...
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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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