City of Newsmen - Public Lies and Professional Secrets in Cold War Washington

"Kathryn McGarr reveals how the Cold War consensus was deliberately created, shaped, maintained, and protected by a coterie of influential journalists in Washington, DC, who calculated what they would do (or not do) for sustained access to information. The compact among journalists, elected officials, and other government operatives constrained knowledge for everyone in a time when political insight was centrally controlled and defined. Yet these reporters, many of them outsiders from the Midwest, did this not out of malfeasance but for social and political benefit, ever conscious of the need to cultivate, placate, and blend with their sources"--

About the author

Kathryn J. McGarr is assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn J. Mcgarr, McGarr Kathryn J.
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9780226664040
• ISBN: 978-0-226-66404-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Media Studies, District of Columbia (Washington D.C.), POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Politics & government, Politics and government, History of the Americas, Media studies: Journalism, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General