Hoover's FBI and the fourth estate
Subtitle: the campaign to control the press and the Bureau's image
By: Matthew Cecil
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780700619467
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: United States; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Political aspects; Government and the press; Public relations; Objectivity; Journalism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-343) and index.
Table of contents: title: The FBI's ongoing crisis of legitimacy; title: A bureau built for public relations; title: Enforcing the Bureau's image of restraint; title: Silencing a "useful citizen"; title: Investigating critics on the left; title: Dividing the press; title: Engaging defenders in the press; title: Corresponding with friends in the press; title: Managing friends in the broadcast media; title: Renewing the FBI story in Bureau-authorized books; title: Building a television audience.