Beyond Malice: The Media's Years of Reckoning Tapa blanda - 2011

Routledge, 2011-08-15. Paperback. Like New. 0.8000 8.9000 6.0000. Brand New! Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Never opened! No signs of wear.

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Paperback / softback. New. 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 intimate critical report of the media in the 1980s, the stormiest years in press history until the present time, and a harbinger of the present day. Beginning with the invasion of Grenada, he takes his readers - event by event - through the biggest uproars in history, raising questions from both the media's and the public's perspective on the key… Leer más

Transaction Pub, 2011. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 325 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches.