Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press CorpsOxford University Press, USA, 15. mar. 2005 - 390 síður Donald Ritchie here 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 (voted "the best ratcatching reporter in town")--as well as the great investigative reporters, from Paul Y. Anderson (who broke the Teapot Dome scandal) 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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... turned to television , radio slashed its rates and promoted itself as the new low - priced medium . The campaign failed . In 1956 , CBS Radio suffered its first unprofitable year ever , dropping into a seven - year slump . Reading the ...
... turned to television , radio slashed its rates and promoted itself as the new low - priced medium . The campaign failed . In 1956 , CBS Radio suffered its first unprofitable year ever , dropping into a seven - year slump . Reading the ...
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... turned editorial pages more than ever before into public fo- rums . When the Great Depression struck , the columnists also helped newspapers satisfy readers ' insatiable appetite for Washington analysis . When relatively few papers ...
... turned editorial pages more than ever before into public fo- rums . When the Great Depression struck , the columnists also helped newspapers satisfy readers ' insatiable appetite for Washington analysis . When relatively few papers ...
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... turned a profit and the heavily subsidized Daily News at first carried no advertising at all . " The morning Washington Post had little more than an AP franchise to offer its readers . The paper reflected the passions of its right ...
... turned a profit and the heavily subsidized Daily News at first carried no advertising at all . " The morning Washington Post had little more than an AP franchise to offer its readers . The paper reflected the passions of its right ...
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Washington D C 1932 | 1 |
The News Bureaus and the New Deal 7 | 7 |
Race Rules and Reporting | 28 |
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