Salant, Cbs, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism
Subtitle: The Memoirs of Richard S. Salant
Contributors: Bill Buzenberg (Editor)
Publisher: Westview Pr (Trd)
Published: August 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780813390918
Subjects: Biography: general; Press & journalism; Radio & television industry; Television Journalism; History; Television broadcasting of news; Performing Arts; Television - History & Criticism; Performing Arts/Dance; USA; Salant, Richard S; Biography; Television broadcasting of new; United States; d. 1993; Broadcasters; Businesspeople; Columbia Broadcasting System,; Salant, Richard S.,
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.