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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458394103321

Autore

Ritchie Donald A. <1945->

Titolo

Reporting from Washington [[electronic resource] ] : the history of the Washington press corps / / Donald A. Ritchie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-280-96573-8

0-19-534632-7

1-4294-6186-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (429 p.)

Disciplina

071/.3

Soggetti

Journalism - Objectivity - United States - History - 20th century

Press and politics - United States - History - 20th century

Journalism - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Reporters and reporting - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Notes : p. [309]-374.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The news bureaus and the New Deal -- Race, rules, and reporting -- Radio voices -- The friends of Joe McCarthy -- News center of the world -- Flash : the wire services -- The business of being opinionated -- Off the women's page -- The camera's eye -- Washington, deceit -- Company town papers -- Anyone with a modem -- Washington, D.C., 2001.

Sommario/riassunto

Donald Ritchie here offers a vibrant chronicle of news coverage in our nation's capital, from the early days of radio and print reporting and the heyday of the wire services to the brave new world of the Internet. Beginning with 1932, when a newly elected FDR energized the sleepy capital, Ritchie highlights the dramatic changes in journalism that have occurred in the last seven decades. We meet legendary columnists--including Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, and Drew Pearson (voted ""the best rat catching reporter in town"")--as well as the great investigative reporters, from Paul Y. Anderson