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Highly recommended for all collections in journalism, communications law, and US history.Choice
Media mavens will drool for [this] meaty volume....Fighting for the First Amendment captures a past battle between government and the electronic media: 'Selling the Pentagon' confrontation between CBS president Frank Stanton and politicians--in Congress and Nixon's White House--who tried to use the broadcast media's narrower press-freedom standards to restrain journalists' ability to investigate and report. Dunham was for many years a top executive and general counsel for NBC, so he understands the issues as well as the venues of this story. Like Stanton did years ago, Dunham maintains that broadcast journalists should have the same First Amendment protection as print reporters.Booklist
Dunham...has written an absolutely gripping account of the parlous times in 1971 when, after CBS News broadcast a documentary called The Selling of the Pentagon, CBS News was investigated by a committee of Congress with support from the Nixon White House....Besides providing invaluable historical perspective...the author gives fascinating insights into the relationships and antagonisms prevailing among CBS's top brass....Fighting for the First Amendment is a page-turner, a dramatic evocation of what the author aptly calls `a defining moment for broadcast journalism.'Television Quarterly
Corydon Dunham...has written a passionate account of the Congressional-media uproarfollowing the broadcast of a CBS documentary called `The Selling of the Pentagon' on Feb. 23, 1971.Greenwich Time
Five Stars (exceptional).Today's Books
The book is meticulously documented....Dunham is knowledgeable, and the book is well orgainzed, concise and scholarly.Journalism History
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"History serves dramatically to illustrate the need for continuing public awareness that our press freedoms must be protected. This is vital as we enter the new Information Age with all its promise for us and our descendants. That's why Corydon Dunham's book Fighting for the First Amendment is must reading." - Walter Cronkite (from the Foreword)Anchorman and Managing Editor The CBS Evening News, 1962-1991
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Highly recommended for all collections in journalism, communications law, and US history.
Media mavens will drool for [this] meaty volume....Fighting for the First Amendment captures a past battle between government and the electronic media: 'Selling the Pentagon' confrontation between CBS president Frank Stanton and politicians--in Congress and Nixon's White House--who tried to use the broadcast media's narrower press-freedom standards to restrain journalists' ability to investigate and report. Dunham was for many years a top executive and general counsel for NBC, so he understands the issues as well as the venues of this story. Like Stanton did years ago, Dunham maintains that broadcast journalists should have the same First Amendment protection as print reporters.
Dunham...has written an absolutely gripping account of the parlous times in 1971 when, after CBS News broadcast a documentary called The Selling of the Pentagon, CBS News was investigated by a committee of Congress with support from the Nixon White House....Besides providing invaluable historical perspective...the author gives fascinating insights into the relationships and antagonisms prevailing among CBS's top brass....Fighting for the First Amendment is a page-turner, a dramatic evocation of what the author aptly calls `a defining moment for broadcast journalism.'
Corydon Dunham...has written a passionate account of the Congressional-media uproarfollowing the broadcast of a CBS documentary called `The Selling of the Pentagon' on Feb. 23, 1971.
Five Stars (exceptional).
The book is meticulously documented....Dunham is knowledgeable, and the book is well orgainzed, concise and scholarly.
Review
"History serves dramatically to illustrate the need for continuing public awareness that our press freedoms must be protected. This is vital as we enter the new Information Age with all its promise for us and our descendants. That's why Corydon Dunham's book Fighting for the First Amendment is must reading." - Walter Cronkite (from the Foreword)Anchorman and Managing Editor The CBS Evening News, 1962-1991
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On February 23, 1971, a CBS News documentary, The Selling of the Pentagon, reported the Pentagon's use of massive propaganda to urge an increase in military strength as well as military solutions for America's foreign policy, including the Vietnam War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contempt vote, broadcast press, print press, contempt citation, press regulation, convention coverage, pot party, instant analysis, fairness doctrine, affiliated stations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
White House, New York Times, Supreme Court, Commerce Committee, United States, Frank Stanton, Red Lion, Washington Post, Defense Department, President Nixon, Chairman Staggers, Dick Salant, Fairness Doctrine, Herb Klein, Vice President Agnew, Carl Albert, Julian Goodman, Gerald Ford, John Dingell, South Vietnamese, Dean Burch, House of Representatives, Southeast Asia, Staggers Subcommittee, Des Moines New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
On February 23, 1971, a CBS News documentary, The Selling of the Pentagon, reported the Pentagon's use of massive propaganda to urge an increase in military strength as well as military solutions for America's foreign policy, including the Vietnam War. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contempt vote, broadcast press, print press, contempt citation, press regulation, convention coverage, pot party, instant analysis, fairness doctrine, affiliated stations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
White House, New York Times, Supreme Court, Commerce Committee, United States, Frank Stanton, Red Lion, Washington Post, Defense Department, President Nixon, Chairman Staggers, Dick Salant, Fairness Doctrine, Herb Klein, Vice President Agnew, Carl Albert, Julian Goodman, Gerald Ford, John Dingell, South Vietnamese, Dean Burch, House of Representatives, Southeast Asia, Staggers Subcommittee, Des Moines New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- American Broadcasting and the First Amendment by Lucas A. Powe on 7 pages
- Making It Perfectly Clear by Herbert G. Klein on 7 pages
- Clearing the Air by Daniel Schorr on 5 pages