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The press and America : an interpretive history of the mass media / Emery, Michael, Edwin Emery.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey : Prentice Hall, 1992Edition: 7th edDescription: xiv, 715 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 013739277X
  • 9780137392773
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • EME 071.3
Item type: Books-General
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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

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