Emery, Michael

The press and America : an interpretive history of the mass media / Emery, Michael, Edwin Emery. - 7th ed. - Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice Hall, 1992 - xiv, 715 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Table of Contents

The heritage of the American press
The colonial years
The press and the revolution
Founding the new nation
Westward expansion
A press for the masses
The irrepressible conflict
A revolution in national life
The new journalism
The people's champions
Bastions of news enterprise
War comes to America
The twenties: radio, movies, jazz journalism
Depression and reform
A world at war
Tellevision takes center stage
Challenge and dissent
A crisis of credibility
Efforts to improve the media
The surving newspaper press
Media technology: the challenge of the 1980s

Includes index

013739277X 9780137392773


Press --History.--United States
Mass media--History--United States
Journalism--History. --United States

071.3 / EME