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Informationen zum Autor Todd Gitlin is the author of ten books! most recently Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Image and Sound Overwhelms Our Lives (2002). He is Professor of Journalism and Sociology at Columbia University. Klappentext Praise for the original edition: "No phenomenon in American life cries out for examination more than the impact of the news media on persons! movements! and events. One need not accept all of Gitlin's provocative conclusions to praise the exacting scholarship that has gone into this study of what happens to an anti-establishment movement performing on an establishment stage."-Daniel Schorr! commentator! National Public Radio "An enormously useful book. . . . Gitlin writes about the way news organizations! as the category implies! 'organize' the news world! both for practitioners-reporters! editors! and managers-and for the consumers-readers! viewers! and perhaps even more important! decision-makers."-Frank Mankiewicz! Washington Journalism Review "Gitlin tells us . . . how the New York Times and CBS reported on Students for a Democratic Society! and how their choices mattered for the development of the 60s movement and the containment of serious political change."-Gaye Tuchman! In These Times Zusammenfassung Scrutinizes major news coverage in the early days of the antiwar movement. This work shows in detail how the media first ignore new political developments, then select and emphasize aspects of the story that treat movements as oddities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the 2003 Edition Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. IMAGES OF A MOVEMENT 1. Preliminaries The Struggle over Images 2. Versions of SDS, Spring 1965 Discovering SDS Framing an Action, I: The Chase Manhattan Demonstration Framing an Action, II: The March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam Identifying SDS 3. SDS in the Spotlight, Fall1965 SDS in the Semi-Dark The Spotlight Switches On Making the Most of the Glare The Media, the Right, and the Administration Item: The Katzenbach Press Conference "Build, Not Burn" Developing Themes, I: The Movement Divided Developing Themes, II: The Movement Confronted Developing Themes, III: The Movement Legitimate and Illegitimate Part II. MEDIA IN THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF THE MOVEMENT 4. Organizational Crisis, 1965 The Membership Surge and Prairie Power Who Will Speak into the Microphone? The Obsolescence of the Old Guard From Community to Mass Movement Political Consequences of the Early Coverage, and Sources of 50S's Vulnerability 5. Certifying Leaders and Converting Leadership to Celebrity The Manufacture of Celebrity The Vulnerability of Ambivalent Leaders Celebrity as Resource: Pyramiding Celebrity as Career: Performing Celebrity as Trap: Abdicating Alternatives for Leadership 6. Inflating Rhetoric and Militancy 'The New Left Turns to Mood of Violence" Revolutionary Will and Action News The Aestheticizing of Violence in Films Militancy and the Movement 7. Elevating Moderate Alternatives: The Moment of Reform The Tet Crisis and American Elites Media on a Tightrope: Extraordinary Measures to Secure Moderating Frames Moratorium and Mobilization Routines and Stereotypes 8. Contracting Time and Eclipsing Context On Discontinuity and the Decontextualization of Experience The Vulnerability of a Student Movement 9. Broadcasting and Containment Part III. HEGEMONY, CRISIS, AND OPPOSITION 10. Media Routines and Political Crises ...
