Walter's Perspective : A Memoir of Fifty Years in Chicago TV News /

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Walter Jacobson's highly readable book Walter's Perspective: A Memoir of Fifty Years in Chicago TV News provides a unique glimpse into the rough-and-tumble Chicago news business as seen through the eyes of one of its legendary players. From his first news job working as a legman for Daily...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacobson, Walter, 1937-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Jacobson, Walter, > 1937-
Television journalists
Journalists
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Journalistes de television > Illinois > Chicago > Biographies.
Journalists > Illinois > Chicago > Biography.
Television journalists > Illinois > Chicago > Biography.
Illinois > Chicago
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biography
Autobiography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Once a Cubs fan
  • I'm a legman
  • The city news bureau, Queen Elizabeth, and me
  • Jacobson vs. Royko
  • New to tv: from JFK to Muhammad Ali
  • The first Mayor Daley
  • My mouth runneth over
  • From reporter to commentator
  • From commentator to anchor!
  • Heat from Jesse Jackson
  • Madame mayor
  • Bill Kurtis and the golden age of tv news
  • Brown and Williamson vs. Walter Jacobson
  • A new mayor, a controversial minister, and an old nemesis
  • Council wars and newsroom woes
  • Another Mayor Daley and another tv station
  • Blago, Barack, and my orchestrated exit
  • Good-bye to Fox
  • The ups and downs of celebrity
  • Yanked from retirement
  • Epilogue.

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