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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Press in times of crisis. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995 (OCoLC)604452656 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lloyd Chiasson |
| ISBN: | 0313293643 9780313293641 0275953408 9780275953409 |
| OCLC Number: | 32395998 |
| Description: | x, 255 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Selling the American revolution / Carol Sue Humphrey -- Battle without a rule book / Donald Avery -- The Legislation of prior restraint / Donald Avery -- Journalism for God and man / Bernell Tripp -- Old Osawatomie Brown: martyr or madman? / Lloyd Chiasson Jr. -- Words for war / Donald Reynolds -- Journey to Cuba: the yellow crisis / Gene Wiggins -- Descent into hell: the red crisis / Joseph McKerns -- The Japanese-American enigma / Lloyd Chiasson Jr. -- McCarthy's journalism / Lloyd Chiasson Jr. -- The Unraveling of America / Arthur Kaul -- David Duke and the New Orleans Times-Picayune / Keith Woods -- Population: the once and future environmental crisis / Mike Maher -- The Press and crisis: what have we learned? / Mike Maher and Lloyd Chiasson Jr. |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of mass media and communications, no. 48. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Lloyd Chiasson, Jr. |
Abstract:
Throughout American history, the press has been incredibly adept at making the public aware. The history of the press in crisis situations is in many ways the story of public attitudes and the story of America. This book looks at the press over time and the way it has functioned in times of crisis. It considers press coverage of 13 events, spanning a time frame that includes the birth of the nation, its political, economic, and social struggles as a young country, and its civil war. It tells how a young agrarian society grew into an industrial giant, and how it changed from isolationist to a world power. It relates how this country coped with the growth of socialism, two world wars, civil unrest, and with the problem of world overpopulation.
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