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Book SynopsisThe national news media, as now practiced, were born in the 1950s, revealed their strength in the 1960s (Vietnam), asserted it in the 1970s (Watergate), and were hammered for it in the 1980s. By the mid- and late 1980s, after historic libel suits, with the press knocking off presidential candidates and Supreme Court nominees, unraveling the Reagan presidency, and in a position to overwhelm any individual or institution, a new era in press-public tension had arisen from the depths of America''s civic religion: fair play.In this account of the media mandarins'' rise to uneasy domination, Richard M. Clurman gives an intimate critical report of the media in the 1980s, the stormiest years in press history until the present time, and a harbinger of the present day. Beginning with the invasion of Grenada, he takes his readers - event by event - through the biggest uproars in history, raising questions from both the media''s and the public''s perspective on the key troubling press issues of ou
Table of ContentsForethoughts: Why “I”?; Prelude; 1: A Very Cold Winter; 2: Battleground; 1: Book One: The News Media on Trial; 3: The General; 4: The Interview; 5: The Counterattack; 6: A Very Different General; 7: Briefly Brilliant; 8: A “State of Mind”; 9: Judgments; 10: Winners and Losers; 11: Verdicts; 2: Book One: The News Media on Trial; 12: From Press to News Media; 13: Adultery and Other Sins; 14: Some Raps. . .; 15: . . . And Bum Raps; 16: Dollars and Angst; 17: Prophets and Losses; 18: Tko Reforms
