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Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism
Ralph Engelman
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Description for Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism
Hardback. Num Pages: 440 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; KNTJ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 771.
Fred Friendly (1915-1998) was the single most important personality in news and public affairs programming during the first four decades of American television. Portrayed by George Clooney in the film Good Night and Good Luck, Friendly, together with Edward R. Murrow, invented the television documentary format and subsequently oversaw the birth of public television. Juggling the roles of producer, policy maker, and teacher, Friendly had an unprecedented impact on the development of CBS in its heyday, wielded extensive influence at the Ford Foundation under the presidency of McGeorge Bundy, and trained a generation of journalists at Columbia University during a ... Read more
Fred Friendly (1915-1998) was the single most important personality in news and public affairs programming during the first four decades of American television. Portrayed by George Clooney in the film Good Night and Good Luck, Friendly, together with Edward R. Murrow, invented the television documentary format and subsequently oversaw the birth of public television. Juggling the roles of producer, policy maker, and teacher, Friendly had an unprecedented impact on the development of CBS in its heyday, wielded extensive influence at the Ford Foundation under the presidency of McGeorge Bundy, and trained a generation of journalists at Columbia University during a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231136907
SKU
V9780231136907
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About Ralph Engelman
Ralph Engelman chairs the Journalism Department at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. A member of the jury of the George Polk Awards and the coordinator of the annual George Polk Awards Seminar, he is the author of Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History.
Reviews for Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism
Broadcast news might have been saved if we had figured out how to clone Fred Friendly. Read this book and you'll understand the gruff, restless, brilliant, temperamental, and driven giant of a man who fought to make the vast wasteland safe for journalism.
Bill Moyers, award-winning journalist and public commentator Friendlyvision is an important and rigorous piece of scholarship ... Read more
Bill Moyers, award-winning journalist and public commentator Friendlyvision is an important and rigorous piece of scholarship ... Read more