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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... march on Washington. With visions of violent insurrection, anxious editors at the Washington Post urged President Hoover “to crush violence with a sledge hammer of law, not in belated or wavering fashion, but instantly, on the spot ...
... march on Washington. With visions of violent insurrection, anxious editors at the Washington Post urged President Hoover “to crush violence with a sledge hammer of law, not in belated or wavering fashion, but instantly, on the spot ...
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... March (propaganda that the Communist Party itself spread to boost its public image). The Quaker president encouraged a peaceful dispersal of the protesters by offering them free rides home. Most accepted, but a few of the more militant ...
... March (propaganda that the Communist Party itself spread to boost its public image). The Quaker president encouraged a peaceful dispersal of the protesters by offering them free rides home. Most accepted, but a few of the more militant ...
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... March galvanized the press corps, confronting them with the realities of the depression beyond press conferences, congressional debates, and presidential pronouncements. “So all the misery and suffering had come finally to this—soldiers ...
... March galvanized the press corps, confronting them with the realities of the depression beyond press conferences, congressional debates, and presidential pronouncements. “So all the misery and suffering had come finally to this—soldiers ...
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... in the presidential race, at the depth of the depression, an interminable five months stood between the November election and the inauguration in March. The economy crumbled, banks failed, mortgages were foreclosed, and workers lost their.
... in the presidential race, at the depth of the depression, an interminable five months stood between the November election and the inauguration in March. The economy crumbled, banks failed, mortgages were foreclosed, and workers lost their.
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... March 22, 1945. Krock had heard reports about Roosevelt's declining health but had seen little of him during the war. The expression on Krock's face as the ailing president was wheeled past him caused Roosevelt to laugh. “Cheer up ...
... March 22, 1945. Krock had heard reports about Roosevelt's declining health but had seen little of him during the war. The expression on Krock's face as the ailing president was wheeled past him caused Roosevelt to laugh. “Cheer up ...
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The Friends of Joe McCarthy | |
News Center of the World | |
The Wire Services | |
Off the Womens Page | |
The Cameras | |
Washington Deceit | |
Company Town Papers | |
Anyone with a Modem | |
Washington D C 2001 | |
A Note on Sources | |
Notes | |
The Business of Being Opinionated | |
Index | |
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