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What the people know : freedom and the press
- Title
- What the people know : freedom and the press / Richard Reeves.
- Author
- Reeves, Richard, 1936-2020
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | PN4781 .R375 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 149 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- The power and status of the press in America reached new heights after spectacular reporting triumphs in the segregated South, in Vietnam, and in Washington during the Watergate years. Then new technologies created instantaneous global reporting, which left the government unable to control the flow of information to the nation. The press thus became a formidable rival in critical struggles to control what the people know and when they know it. But that was more power than the press could handle - and journalism crashed toward new lows in public esteem and public purpose. The dazzling new technologies, profit-driven owners, and celebrated editors, reporters, and broadcasters made it possible to bypass older values and standards of journalism. Richard Reeves was there at the rise and at the fall, beginning as a small-town editor, becoming the chief political correspondent for the New York Times and then a best-selling author and award-winning documentary filmmaker. From the Pony Express to the Internet, he chronicles what happened to the press as America accelerated into uncertainty, and he argues that to survive, the press must go back to doing what it was hired to do long ago: stand as an outsider watching government and politics on behalf of a free people busy with its own affairs.
- Series Statement
- The Joanna Jackson Goldman memorial lecture on American civilization and government
- Uniform Title
- Joanna Jackson Goldman memorial lecture on American civilization and government
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-139) and index.
- Contents
- Covering the naked emperor -- Technology happens -- If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em -- "The tribe" -- "Give them what they want!" -- News as entertainment -- What's the story?
- ISBN
- 0674616227
- 9780674616226
- 9780674616233
- 0674616235
- LCCN
- 98022572
- OCLC
- ocm39052454
- 39052454
- SCSB-417023
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library