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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453796403321

Autore

Thrift Bryan H

Titolo

Conservative bias : how Jesse Helms pioneered the rise of right-wing media and realigned the Republican Party / / Bryan Hardin Thrift

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8130-5013-8

0-8130-4898-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Collana

Sunbelt Studies

Disciplina

328.73/092

Soggetti

Mass media - Political aspects - United States

Conservatism - United States - History - 20th century

Television broadcasting of news - Objectivity - United States

Legislators - United States

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Jesse Helm's politics of pious incitement -- "There is another way": free enterprise, the mainstream media, and southern realignment in the 1950's -- "The voice of free enterprise": a conservative commentator and news director -- "An uncommon number of moral degenerates": the conservative alternative and the fairness doctrine -- Backlash: the great society, Vietnam, and conservative solutions -- Turning off turn-on: Helms as a TV executive in the 1960's -- The dawn of a conservative era: gaining power, 1968 to 1972 -- Epilogue: mainstreaming the fringe.

Sommario/riassunto

An exploration of how Jesse Helms pioneered the attack on the liberal media while building a new form of southern conservativism, centering on his time as executive vice president of WRAL-TV in Raleigh.