Conservative bias
Subtitle: how Jesse Helms pioneered the rise of right-wing media and realigned the Republican Party
By: Bryan Hardin Thrift
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780813049311
Subjects: Politics and government; Legislators; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Television broadcasting of news; Political and social views; Conservatism; Mass media; Objectivity; Biography; History
Description: An exploration of how Jesse Helms pioneered the attack on the liberal media while building a new form of southern conservativism, centering on his time as executive vice president of WRAL-TV in Raleigh.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Jesse Helm's politics of pious incitement; title: "There is another way": free enterprise, the mainstream media, and southern realignment in the 1950s; title: "The voice of free enterprise": a conservative commentator and news director; title: "An uncommon number of moral degenerates": the conservative alternative and the fairness doctrine; title: Backlash: the great society, Vietnam, and conservative solutions; title: Turning off turn-on: Helms as a TV executive in the 1960s; title: The dawn of a conservative era: gaining power, 1968 to 1972; title: Epilogue: mainstreaming the fringe.