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The newscasters
- Title
- The newscasters / Ron Powers.
- Author
- Powers, Ron.
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, ©1977.
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Details
- Description
- 243 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- A Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic traces the decline and fall of American newscasting, revealing its inner workings through analyses of or interviews with such notables as Walter Cronkite, Barbara Walters, Dan Rather, and Geraldo Rivera.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Faces and places -- Vamping it -- Moonscapes -- Tom Swift and his electric poll-taker -- "Least objectionable" -- Rhinestone cowboys -- Stepchild on the make -- Follow that helicopter! -- Eyewitless news -- Blueprint -- In the palace of the ice king -- Colors in a diamond -- Researchthink: the rise and fall of AM America -- Victim: Stephanie Edwards -- Prime mover: al primo and the "beat system" -- "Salesmen selling salesmen": an insider speaks -- "...such anger!": Barbara Walters -- The beautiful ethnic: Geraldo Rivera -- The curator reacts: Walter Cronkite -- Send in the clowns: the Athyn Group -- End of an era? -- A modest proposal.
- ISBN
- 0312572077
- 9780312572075
- LCCN
- 76062789
- OCLC
- ocm02967659
- 2967659
- SCSB-111094
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library