Media Nation : : The Political History of News in Modern America / / Bruce J. Schulman, Julian E. Zelizer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2017
• HerausgeberIn: Schulman, Bruce J.,; Zelizer, Julian E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 4 illus.

From the creation of newspapers with national reach in the late nineteenth century to the lightning-fast dispatches and debates of today's Internet, the media have played an enormous role in modern American politics. Scholars of political history universally concede the importance of this relat...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Proprietary Interest: Merchants, Journalists, and Antimonopoly in the 1880s
• 2. Progressive Political Culture and the Widening Scope of Local Newspapers, 1880-1930
• 3. The Ominous Clang: Fears of Propaganda from World War I to World War II
• 4. When the "Mainstream Media" Was Conservative: Media Criticism in the Age of Reform
• 5. " We're All in This Thing Together": Cold War Consensus in the Exclusive Social World of Washington Reporters
• 6. Objectivity and Its Discontents: The Struggle for the Soul of American Journalism in the 1960s and 1970s
• 7. "No on 14": Hollywood Celebrities, the Civil Rights Movement, and the California Open Housing Debate
• 8. From "Faith in Facts" to "Fair and Balanced": Conservative Media, Liberal Bias, and the Origins of Balance
• 9. Abe Rosenthal's Proj ect X: The Editorial Process Leading to Publication of the Pentagon Papers
• 10. "Ideological Plugola," "Elitist Gossip," and the Need for Cable Television
• 11. How Washington Helped Create the Con temporary Media: Ending the Fairness Doctrine in 1987
• 12. The Multiple Political Roles of American Journalism
• Notes
• List of Contributors
• Index