1st Edition

Beyond Malice The Media's Years of Reckoning

Edited By Richard M. Clurman Copyright 1988
334 Pages
by Routledge

325 Pages
by Routledge

325 Pages
by Routledge

The 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... Read more
Forethoughts: 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

Biography

Richard M. Clurman