@article{448550,
      recid = {448550},
      author = {González, Juan, and Torres, Joseph.},
      title = {News for all the people : the epic story of race and the  American media /},
      publisher = {Verso,},
      address = {London ;},
      pages = {453 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/448550},
}