Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism
Subtitle: The Memoirs of Richard S. Salant
Contributors: Mike Wallace (Foreword, Editor); Bill Buzenberg (Editor); Susan Buzenberg (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: October 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780813337036
Subjects: Biography: general; Radio & television industry; Entertainment & Performing Arts - Television Personalities; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Sociology; USA; Business; Television - History & Criticism; Biography & Autobiography-Business; Performing Arts-Television - History & Criticism; Television broadcasting of news; General
First sentence: MOST AMERICANS RECOGNIZE the names of Mike Wallace, Walter Cronkite, and Eric Sevareid but are unlikely to have ever heard of their behind-the-scenes boss, Richard Salant, president of CBS News for nearly two tumultuous decades in the 1960s and 1970s.