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A riveting, blow-by-blow account of how the network broadcasts of the 1968 Democratic convention shattered faith in American media. The whole world is watching! cried protestors at the 1968 Democratic convention as Chicago police beat them in the streets. When some of that violence was then aired on network television, another kind of hell broke loose. Some viewers were stunned and outraged; others thought the protestors deserved what they got. No oneleast of all Chicago mayor Richard J. Daleywas happy with how the networks handled it. In When the News Broke, Heather Hendershot revisits TV coverage of those four chaotic days in 1968not only the violence in the streets but also the tumultuous convention itself, where Black citizens and others forcefully challenged southern delegations that had excluded them, anti-Vietnam delegates sought to change the party's policy on the war, and journalists and delegates alike were bullied by both Daley's security forces and party leaders. Ul

When the News Broke

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A riveting, blow-by-blow account of how the network broadcasts of the 1968 Democratic convention shattered faith in American media. The... Read more

    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 4/5/2024
    ISBN13: 9780226833286, 978-0226833286
    ISBN10: 0226833283

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    A riveting, blow-by-blow account of how the network broadcasts of the 1968 Democratic convention shattered faith in American media. The whole world is watching! cried protestors at the 1968 Democratic convention as Chicago police beat them in the streets. When some of that violence was then aired on network television, another kind of hell broke loose. Some viewers were stunned and outraged; others thought the protestors deserved what they got. No oneleast of all Chicago mayor Richard J. Daleywas happy with how the networks handled it. In When the News Broke, Heather Hendershot revisits TV coverage of those four chaotic days in 1968not only the violence in the streets but also the tumultuous convention itself, where Black citizens and others forcefully challenged southern delegations that had excluded them, anti-Vietnam delegates sought to change the party's policy on the war, and journalists and delegates alike were bullied by both Daley's security forces and party leaders. Ul

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