Media nation : the political history of news in modern America / edited by Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer. - First edition. - 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations. - Politics and culture in modern America . - Politics and culture in modern America. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Proprietary interest : merchants, journalists, and antimonopoly in the 1880s / Richard R. John -- Progressive political culture and the widening scope of local newspapers : 1880-1930 / Julia Guarneri -- The ominous clang : fears of propaganda from World War I to World War II / David Greenberg -- When the "mainstream media" was conservative : media criticism in the age of reform / Sam Lebovic -- "We're all in this thing together" : Cold War consensus in the exclusive social world of Washington journalists / Kathryn McGarr -- Objectivity and its discontents : the struggle for the soul of American journalism in the 1960s and 1970s / Matthew Pressman -- "No on 14" : Hollywood celebrities, the Civil Rights movement, and the California open housing debate / Emilie Raymond -- From "faith in facts" to "fair and balanced" : conservative media, liberal bias, and the origins of balance / Nicole Hemmer -- Abe Rosenthal's Project X : the editorial process leading to publication of the Pentagon Papers / Kevin Lerner -- -- "Ideological plugola," "elitist gossip," and the need for cable television / Kathryn Cramer Brownell -- How Washington helped create the contemporary media : ending the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 / Julian E. Zelizer -- The multiple political roles of American journalism / Michael Schudson.

9780812293746 (e-book)


Mass media--Political aspects--History.--United States
Journalism--Political aspects--History.--United States
Press and politics--History.--United States
Government and the press--History.--United States


Electronic books.

P95.82.U6 / M47 2017

071.3