News for all the people : the epic story of race and the American media / Juan González and Joseph Torres.
González, Juan, 1947-; Torres, Joseph.
2011
PN4888.R3 G66 2011 (Mapit)
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Title News for all the people : the epic story of race and the American media / Juan González and Joseph Torres.
Author González, Juan, 1947-
ISBN 9781844676873
1844676870
Publication Details London ; New York : Verso, 2011.
Language English
Description 453 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PN4888.R3 G66 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 302.23/0973
Summary "Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America's racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country's media system, just as the media has contributed to--and every so often, combated--racial oppression. News for All the People reveals how racial segregation distorted the information Americans received from the mainstream media. It unearths numerous examples of how publishers and broadcasters actually fomented racial violence and discrimination through their coverage. And it chronicles the influence federal media policies exerted in such conflicts. It depicts the struggle of Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American journalists who fought to create a vibrant yet little-known alternative, democratic press, and then, beginning in the 1970s, forced open the doors of the major media companies."--Dust jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Torres, Joseph.
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[Pt.] I. The age of newspapers. "Barbarous Indians" and "rebellious Negroes"
In the mail : the post office, the press and the mass political party
Inciting to riot : the age of Jackson
[pt.] II. Rebel voices. A new democratic press
Priests, mobs, and know-nothings : the early Spanish-language press
The Indian war of words
To plead our own cause : the early Black press
"The Chinese must go!"
[pt.] III. The age of news networks. Wiring the news
The Progressive Era and the colored press
[pt.] IV. The age of broadcasting. Words with wings
Trouble in the streets
Other voices : Amos 'n' Andy, the "Sunshine Lady" and Los Madrugadores
Uniting the home front
The color line and the public interest : the post-War period
Fierce rebellion, furious reaction : 1963-2003
[pt.] V. The age of the Internet. Controlling the means of transmission : old media's fall and new media's rise.

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