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This is the first in-depth look at the development of the television newscast, the most popular source of news for over forty-five years.During the 1940s, most

When critics decry the current state of our public discourse, one reliably easy target is television news. It’s too dumbed-down, they say; it’s no longer ne

Richly researched and engaging, The Columbia History of American Television tracks the growth of TV into a convergent technology, a global industry, a social ca

This instructive and entertaining social history of American newspapers shows that the very idea of impartial, objective “news” was the social product of th

This book is an effort to tell the story of the last twenty-five years of television news in the context of the social and cultural history of American broadcas