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Conservative Bias : How Jesse Helms Pioneered the Rise of Right-Wing Media and Realigned the Republican Party /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Thrift, Bryan Hardin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Jesse Helm's politics of pious incitement
  • "There is another way": free enterprise, the mainstream media, and southern realignment in the 1950s
  • "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 1960s
  • The dawn of a conservative era: gaining power, 1968 to 1972
  • Epilogue: mainstreaming the fringe.