Some say it's simply information, mirroring the world. Others believe it's propaganda, promoting a partisan view. But news, Michael Schudson tells us, is really both and neither; it is a form of culture, complete with its own literary and social conventions and powerful in ways …
Joe McCarthy and the Press
by Project Muse, Bayley, Edwin R.
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
Analyzes the part the press played in the rise and fall of Senator McCarthy and his anti-communist campaign in the fifties.
This is a book for historians, journalists--and for all of us who need to remember this turbulent time on our nation's past, and its lessons for today.
This is a book for historians, journalists-and for all of us who need to remember this turbulent time on our nation's past, and its lessons for today.
A CBS reporter reveals how she has been electronically surveilled while digging deep into the Obama Administration and its scandals, and offers an incisive critique of her industry and the shrinking role of investigative journalism in today's media.
Who's been hacking Sharyl Attkisson's computers? Computers that turn themselves on in the night, make strange noises, then shut themselves down. Whoever is doing it is using highly sophisticated spyware available only to our top intelligence agencies. Is someone sending Attkisso…