CBS's Don Hollenbeck : an honest reporter in the age of McCarthyism /

Loren Ghiglione recounts the fascinating life and tragic suicide of Don Hollenbeck, the controversial newscaster who became a primary target of McCarthyism's smear tactics. Drawing on unsealed FBI records, private family correspondence, and interviews with Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Charles...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ghiglione, Loren (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
Temas:
Hollenbeck, Don.
Television journalists > United States > Biography.
Journalists > United States > Biography.
Journalistes de télévision > États-Unis > Biographies.
Journalistes > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > General.
Journalists.
Television journalists.
United States.
Biography
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The boy from Lincoln
  • Working for William Randolph Hearst in Omaha
  • The founding of PM, a "newspaperman's ideal"
  • Politics at PM: commies and 'good liberals"
  • Covering World War II from home and abroad
  • Getting fired by NBC and ABC, then hired by CBS
  • The invention of CBS Views the press
  • Jack O'Brian: Buffalo dock-walloper to Broadway drama critic
  • Press criticism: from name-calling to nuance
  • Jack O'Brian: championing decency, fighting soft-on-Communism liberals
  • The obsession with subversives and Communist spies
  • Jack O'Brian: traveling with the Conservative, Anti-Commie crowd
  • The Hearts versus Hollenbeck
  • Jack O'Brian: attacking the Communist broadcasting system
  • Loyalty oaths, blacklists, and Joseph McCarthy
  • The walking wounded
  • The sermon in the suicide.

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