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Beyond Malice: The Media's Years of Reckoning
Richard M. Clurman
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Paperback. Num Pages: 313 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 467.
The national news media, as now practiced, were born in the 1950s, revealed their strength in the 1960s (Vietnam), asserted it in the 1970s (Watergate), and were hammered for it in the 1980s. By the mid- and late 1980s, after historic libel suits, with the press knocking off presidential candidates and Supreme Court nominees, unraveling the Reagan presidency, and in a position to overwhelm any individual or institution, a new era in press-public tension had arisen from the depths of America's civic religion: fair play.In this account of the media mandarins' rise to uneasy domination, Richard M. Clurman gives an ... Read more
The national news media, as now practiced, were born in the 1950s, revealed their strength in the 1960s (Vietnam), asserted it in the 1970s (Watergate), and were hammered for it in the 1980s. By the mid- and late 1980s, after historic libel suits, with the press knocking off presidential candidates and Supreme Court nominees, unraveling the Reagan presidency, and in a position to overwhelm any individual or institution, a new era in press-public tension had arisen from the depths of America's civic religion: fair play.In this account of the media mandarins' rise to uneasy domination, Richard M. Clurman gives an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Transaction Publishers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781412842372
SKU
V9781412842372
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