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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... administration employed “ more ruthlessness , intelligence , and subtlety in trying to suppress legitimate , unfa- vorable comment " than any other he had known , he later insisted . The presi- dent had so generously spread patronage ...
... administration employed “ more ruthlessness , intelligence , and subtlety in trying to suppress legitimate , unfa- vorable comment " than any other he had known , he later insisted . The presi- dent had so generously spread patronage ...
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... administration's congressional opposi- tion , and the more out of step with the New Deal that he became , the happier he would have been to abandon Washington completely . But Adolph Ochs's death in April 1935 handed Krock another ...
... administration's congressional opposi- tion , and the more out of step with the New Deal that he became , the happier he would have been to abandon Washington completely . But Adolph Ochs's death in April 1935 handed Krock another ...
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... administration , inspiring Krock to pass along Kennedy's letters to the White House to ingratiate himself with Roosevelt's staff . The White House leaked them to the Chicago Tribune , which speculated that Kennedy was poised to run for ...
... administration , inspiring Krock to pass along Kennedy's letters to the White House to ingratiate himself with Roosevelt's staff . The White House leaked them to the Chicago Tribune , which speculated that Kennedy was poised to run for ...
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... administration that the Times supported . Nor did the Times's editors and pub- lisher impose their own values on their Washington reporters , most of whom were far more approving of the New Deal than was their bureau chief . The ...
... administration that the Times supported . Nor did the Times's editors and pub- lisher impose their own values on their Washington reporters , most of whom were far more approving of the New Deal than was their bureau chief . The ...
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... administration's purposes . " New Deal liberals regarded the Virginia - born Early ( a grandnephew of the Confederate general Jubal Early ) as racially prejudiced . Early certainly wor- ried that Eleanor Roosevelt's backing of civil ...
... administration's purposes . " New Deal liberals regarded the Virginia - born Early ( a grandnephew of the Confederate general Jubal Early ) as racially prejudiced . Early certainly wor- ried that Eleanor Roosevelt's backing of civil ...
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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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