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News for All the People
Juan Gonzalez
Joseph Torres
其他書名
The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
出版
Verso Books
, 2011-12-23
主題
Social Science / Media Studies
Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
Social Science / Minority Studies
ISBN
184467942X
9781844679423
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WO9-ZxNkzZ8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
A new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story
From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America’s racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country’s media system, just as the media has contributed to—and every so often, combated—racial oppression.
News for All the People
reveals how racial segregation distorted the information Americans received from the mainstream media. It unearths numerous examples of how publishers and broadcasters actually fomented racial violence and discrimination through their coverage. And it chronicles the influence federal media policies exerted in such conflicts. It depicts the struggle of Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American journalists who fought to create a vibrant yet little-known alternative, democratic press, and then, beginning in the 1970s, forced open the doors of the major media companies.
Written in an exciting, story-driven style and replete with memorable portraits of journalists, both famous and obscure,
News for All the People
weaves back and forth between the corporate and government leaders who built our segregated media system—such as Herbert Hoover, whose Federal Radio Commission eagerly awarded a license to a notorious Ku Klux Klan organization in the nation’s capital—and those who rebelled against that system.
Based on years of original archival research and up-to-the-minute reporting and written by two veteran journalists and leading advocates for a more inclusive and democratic media system,
News for All the People
should become the standard history of American media.