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American Media History (with InfoTrac)

by: Fellow, Anthony

American Media History (with InfoTrac)

by: Fellow, Anthony

ISBN 13:
9780534644017
ISBN 10:
0534644015
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 06/24/2004
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

Understand the development and impact of the American media with AMERICAN MEDIA HISTORY with InfoTrac?! Each chapter tells the story of a medium's development and focuses on the major figures involved in the development of that particular medium. Brief biographies of important media figures and other primary materials are incorporated.

Preface

Introduction Before the American Experience

(1)

The Impact of the Printing Press

(3)

The Printing Press in Early England

(3)

John Milton and British Roots of Free Expression

(1)

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

(1)

``Cato's Letters''

(1)

Conclusion

Media Profile: Johannes Gutenberg

(11)

I 1690--1833 THE PRESS IN EARLY AMERICA

(2)

The Colonial Years

(23)

Printing in British America

(3)

Benjamin Harris, Printer

(1)

John Campbell, Favored Printer

(1)

James Franklin, Rebel Printer

(5)

Benjamin Franklin, Cautious Printer

(2)

Tests of Press Freedom

(6)

Anna Zenger and Colonial Women of the Press

(2)

Conclusion

Media Profile: Benjamin Franklin

(12)

The Press and the Revolution

(27)

A Reluctant Revolution

(1)

The Seven Years' War

(1)

The Stamp Act of 1765

(2)

Voices on the Road to Revolution

(1)

James Rivington, the Tory Voice

(2)

Hugh Gaine, Turncoat Editor

(3)

John Dickinson, the Whig Voice

(1)

Isaiah Thomas, the Patriot Voice

(1)

Samuel Adams, the ``Master of the Puppets''

(2)

Edes and Gill's Boston Gazette

(3)

The Sons of Liberty

(3)

Declaration of Independence

(1)

Newspapers as a Revolutionary Force

(1)

The Revolutionary War's Impact on the Press

(1)

Freedom of the Press

(2)

Conclusion

Media Profile: Thomas Paine

(6)

Media Profile: Samuel Adams

(13)

The Press and the Founding of a Nation

(20)

The Bill of Rights and Press Freedom

(2)

The Federalists and Federalist Editors

(2)

The Federalist Editors: Fenno, Cobbett, and Russell

(1)

The Anti-Federalists and Anti-Federalist Editors

(1)

Anti-Federalist Editors: Freneau and Bache

(4)

The Role of the Press in Political Coverage

(1)

Washington and the Press

(2)

Adams and the Press

(1)

Jefferson and the Press

(1)

Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

(2)

The Party Press in Retrospect

(1)

Conclusion

Media Profile: Philip Freneau

(11)

II 1833--1865 A NEW POLITICS, A NEW PRESS

(28)

A Press for the Masses

(26)

A Very Different Newspaper

(1)

Benjamin Day and the New York Sun

(2)

James Gordon Bennett and the New York Herald

(2)

James Gordon Bennett as Innovator

(3)

James Gordon Bennett and the Great Moral War

(2)

Horace Greeley and the New York Tribune

(3)

The New York Tribune

100

(2)

Editorial Influence of the ``Great Moral Organ''

102

(2)

The Penny Press and the Mexican War

104

(3)

Henry Jarvis Raymond and the New York Times

107

(2)

Why a Press for the Masses?

109

(2)

Conclusion

111

Media Profile: William Cullen Bryant

(9)

Media Profile: Andrew Jackson

108

(5)

III 1865--1900 THE AGE OF NEW JOURNALISM

113

(104)

A Divided Nation, A Divided Media

117

(33)

Roots of the Conflict

118

(1)

Before the Storm

119

(1)

William Lloyd Garrison and the Liberator

120

(1)

Lovejoy, Birney, and Tappan

121

(2)

The Black Press

123

(2)

Frederick Douglass and The North Star

125

(2)

The Press on the Eve of War

127

(1)

The Civil War Press in the North

128

(1)

Women Correspondents of the North

129

(1)

The Civil War Press in the South

130

(2)

Magazines of the North and the South

132

(1)

Lincoln and the Press

133

(4)

Lincoln and Greeley

137

(1)

Censorship and the Civil War

138

(1)

``Mob Censorship''

139

(1)

Censorship by Armies

140

(2)

Impact of the Civil War on the Press

142

(2)

The Civil War and the Practice of Journalism

144

(4)

Conclusion

148

Media Profile: Harriet Beecher Stowe

122

(8)

Media Profile: Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

130

(20)

The Yellow Press and the Times

150

(31)

Newspapers as Public Defenders

151

(3)

Joseph Pulitzer

154

(1)

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch

155

(1)

The New York World

156

(4)

Pulitzer's New Journalism

160

(3)

Pulitzer's Sunday World

163

(1)

Yellow Journalism

164

(1)

William Randolph Hearst

165

(1)

The San Francisco Examiner

166

(1)

The New York Morning Journal

167

(2)

The Spanish-American War of 1898

169

(1)

Press Coverage of the War

170

(3)

McKinley's Assassination

173

(3)

Adolph Ochs and the New York Times

176

(2)

Conclusion

178

Media Profile: Nellie Bly

158

(16)

Media Profile: Robert S. Abbott

174

(7)

Magazines, Muckraking, and Public Relations

181

(36)

Robber Barons on the Rise

181

(1)

Enter the Muckrakers

182

(2)

Muckraking Magazines

184

(3)

Ida Tarbell

187

(2)

Lincoln Steffens

189

(1)

David Graham Phillips

190

(2)

Upton Sinclair

192

(3)

Muckraking's Impact

195

(2)

The Death of Muckraking

197

(1)

Digests and Newsmagazines

197

(8)

The Birth of Public Relations

205

(4)

Ivy Lee

209

(2)

Edward L. Bernays

211

(2)

Expansion of Corporate Public Relations

213

(1)

Conclusion

214

Media Profile: Upton Sinclair

194

(6)

Media Profile: Margaret Bourke-White

200

(6)

Media Profile: P. T. Barnum

206

(11)

IV 1900--1950 MEDIA PROMISES IN A TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY

217

(94)

American Film

219

(26)

Motion Picture Experimentation

220

(3)

Story-Telling Motion Pictures

223

(1)

D. W. Griffith and the Art of Filmmaking

224

(2)

Mack Sennett Defines Film Comedy

226

(1)

Hollywood

227

(2)

Economic Expansion of the Motion Picture Business

229

(1)

Film as a Social and Political Power

230

(2)

Sound Motion Pictures

232

(2)

Period Films Reflect Politics and Society

234

(1)

Challenges to the Motion Picture Industry

235

(9)

Conclusion

244

Media Profile: Thomas Ince

228

(8)

Media Profile: Louis B. Mayer

236

(9)

Radio and Its Promises

245

(32)

Scientific Achievements and the Rise of Communications Giants

246

(8)

Radio Stations

254

(2)

Radio Financing

256

(1)

Formation of the Networks

256

(3)

Radio Programming

259

(2)

Political Broadcasting

261

(4)

World War II and Radio Broadcasting

265

(3)

Regulation of Radio Broadcasting

268

(4)

Radio Broadcasting in Transition

272

(1)

Talk, Talk, Talk

273

(1)

Social and Political Impact of Radio

274

(1)

Conclusion

275

Media Profile: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt

262

(4)

Media Profile: Ernie Pyle

266

(11)

Television: Progress and Problems

277

(34)

Early TV Inventors

278

(1)

Zworykin, Sarnoff, and Farnsworth

279

(3)

Television Arrives

282

(1)

Postwar Television

282

(1)

The Color War

283

(2)

Early TV Entertainment

285

(2)

Quiz Show Scandals

287

(3)

Television News

290

(1)

Edward R. Murrow

291

(10)

60 Minutes

301

(4)

TV News Expands

305

(1)

The Media and Civil Rights

306

(2)

Conclusion

308

Media Profile: Walter Cronkite

302

(2)

Media Profile: Barbara Walters

304

(7)

V 1950--PRESENT MEDIA CHALLENGES IN A CHANGING WORLD

311

(64)

Advertising as a Social and Political Force

313

(23)

A Special Rhetoric

314

(1)

Early American Advertising

315

(3)

The Development of the Advertising Agency

318

(2)

Ethical Considerations

320

(3)

Evolution of Advertising Copywriting

323

(6)

Advertising as a Social Force

329

(3)

Advertising as a Political Force

332

(1)

Television

333

(1)

Conclusion

334

Media Profile: Mary Wells Lawrence

330

(6)

The Media and National Crises

336

(39)

Journalists' Changing Values

337

(1)

Vietnam

338

(6)

Watergate

344

(1)

The ``Pentagon Papers''

345

(1)

The Break-in

346

(1)

The Cover-up

347

(2)

Nixon and the Press

349

(3)

The Post-Watergate Pardon

352

(2)

Middle East Crisis

354

(1)

The Iran Crisis

355

(2)

America's New Dawn---Or So the Ads Said

357

(2)

The Struggle for Access

359

(2)

Grenada and Press Control

361

(1)

Iran-Contra Scandal

362

(1)

``The New World Order''

363

(2)

The Gulf War and Press Access

365

(1)

Tabloidization of the Media

366

(3)

``A New Kind of Enemy''

369

(2)

Embedded Reporters in Iraq

371

(2)

Conclusion

373

Media Profile: Helen Thomas

350

(8)

Media Profile: I. F. Stone

358

(17)

Endnotes

375

(26)

Annotated Bibliography

401

Index

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