When the News Broke - Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America

"Heather Hendershot argues that a moment long understood as sitting at the crux of American political history-the chaos of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago-is also crucial to understanding the country's media history. By scrutinizing those events and broadcasts in precise detail, Hendershot documents the emergence of the idea that the media are inherently liberal. As she shows, the public was unwilling to accept what was happening, and when exposed to even a fraction of the chaos, recoiled at what they thought could only be the malicious bias of the gatekeepers of the airwaves"--

About the author

Heather Hendershot is Cardiss Collins Professor of Communication Studies and Journalism at Northwestern University. Her books include What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest and Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line.

Product details

• Authors: Heather Hendershot, Hendershot Heather
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9780226768526
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76852-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Chicago, Illinois, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, c 1960 to c 1970, History of the Americas, c 1960 to c 1969