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Freeing the whales : how the media created the world's greatest non-event
- Title
- Freeing the whales : how the media created the world's greatest non-event / by Tom Rose.
- Author
- Rose, Tom, 1956-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Carol Pub. Group, ©1989.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PN4888.T4 R67 1989 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 318 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Television broadcasting of news > Social aspects > United States
- Gray whale > Press coverage
- Wildlife rescue > Press coverage
- Journalism > Objectivity > United States
- Journalism > Objectivity
- Television broadcasting of news > Social aspects
- Grauwal
- Rettung
- Massenmedien
- Geschichte (1988)
- United States
- Point Barrow
- Note
- "A Birch Lane Press book."
- Contents
- The hunt -- From the edge of the universe to the center of the world -- The Eskimos : 25,000 years below zero degrees -- Here come the media -- A whale in every living room -- The tigress from Greenpeace -- Billy Bob's last frontier -- A great Eskimo hunter saves the whales -- Colonel Carroll's impossible task -- From kickers to leads -- The president watches TV, too -- G'day, Australia -- The Arctic and the White House joined by love -- Barrow: frostbite for the big time -- Minneapolis comes to the rescue -- Saving whales the old-fashioned way -- Polar pears threaten to steal the show -- The whales nearly bring a government to its knees -- Desperate : nothing seems to work -- The Russians are coming -- Risking lives for a six-second scoop -- Sergei Reshetov : "Let's cut ice" -- Free at last -- Consequences.
- ISBN
- 1559720115
- 9781559720113
- LCCN
- 89022251
- OCLC
- ocm20263668
- 20263668
- SCSB-1891784
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library