The media's role in defining the nation
Subtitle: the active voice
By: David Copeland.
Series: Mediating American history -- v. 5
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433103797; 9781433103803
Subjects: Press -- United States -- Influence; Press and politics -- United States -- History; Journalism -- Political aspects -- United States; Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Cooking up paragraphs, articles, occurrences : colonial and revolutionary America; title: My pen and press are the only formidable weapons I have ever used : the early republic; title: The great organ of social life, the prime element of civilization : the Antebellum era and Civil War; title: We expect great results from this work : post Civil War and yellow journalism; title: There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up : the muckrakers and press of the early 20th century; title: My medium is everywhere : new media and the new century; title: My notebook still carries bloodstains : the World Wars and the Cold War; title: The whole world is watching : the journalism of change, 1950s-1970s; title: The scramble to fill 24 hours of air time : the end of the twentieth century; title: Show-me journalism : media transformation in the twentieth-first century.