Television news made meteoric progress in the 1950s. It rose from being a plaything for the rich to a major factor in informing the American public, and an aggressive rival to newspapers, radio, and news magazines. This volume is an insider's account of the arduous and frequently critical steps undertaken by inexperienced staffs in the development of television news, documentaries, and sports broadcasts. The author, the first president of CBS News, provides a treasure trove of facts and anecdotes about plotting in the corridors, the ascendancy of stars, and the retirement into oblivion of the…mehr
Television news made meteoric progress in the 1950s. It rose from being a plaything for the rich to a major factor in informing the American public, and an aggressive rival to newspapers, radio, and news magazines. This volume is an insider's account of the arduous and frequently critical steps undertaken by inexperienced staffs in the development of television news, documentaries, and sports broadcasts. The author, the first president of CBS News, provides a treasure trove of facts and anecdotes about plotting in the corridors, the ascendancy of stars, and the retirement into oblivion of the less favored. This volume is an important contribution to the history of television journalism and will appeal both to journalism and broadcasting scholars and to those interested in the meteoric rise of television.
SIG MICKELSON is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and Distinguished Professor of Journalism at the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University. He has served as Vice President of CBS, Inc., and was the first president of CBS News. He is the author of America's Other Voice (Praeger, 1983) and From Whistle Stop to Sound Bite (Praeger, 1989), and the editor of The First Amendment--The Challenge of New Technology (Praeger, 1989).
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Introduction: The Decade That Shaped Television News The Search for a Road Map The First Awkward Steps A New Star on the Horizon Driving Television's Golden Spike A New Species of Documentary: The Birth of "See It Now" Breaking New Ground Blacklisting and the Exploitation of Fear Not So Strange Bedfellows: Politics and Television Television News Comes of Age The Great Airplane Race The Corporation Declares a Cease-Fire Aftermath of the Cease-Fire Spare the Rod but Don't Spoil the Picture Combat in the Corporate Stratosphere The Changing of the Guard Filling the "See It Now" Void: The Birth of "CBS Reports" The Happy Couple: Pigskin and Image Orthicon Tube Carrying the Olympic Torch to Television In Pursuit of the Dollar The End of the Decade Bibliography Index
Introduction: The Decade That Shaped Television News The Search for a Road Map The First Awkward Steps A New Star on the Horizon Driving Television's Golden Spike A New Species of Documentary: The Birth of "See It Now" Breaking New Ground Blacklisting and the Exploitation of Fear Not So Strange Bedfellows: Politics and Television Television News Comes of Age The Great Airplane Race The Corporation Declares a Cease-Fire Aftermath of the Cease-Fire Spare the Rod but Don't Spoil the Picture Combat in the Corporate Stratosphere The Changing of the Guard Filling the "See It Now" Void: The Birth of "CBS Reports" The Happy Couple: Pigskin and Image Orthicon Tube Carrying the Olympic Torch to Television In Pursuit of the Dollar The End of the Decade Bibliography Index
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