Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism

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A lively history of American journalism from the colonial era to the present day
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In this scholarly yet readable volume, Daly (Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World), a professor of history and journalism at Boston University, presents a surprisingly spirited and detailed account of American journalism and the many ways in which the press has impacted the trajectory of American history, and vice versa. Beginning in the early 1700s with the institution of a postal service and continuing through the advent of the Internet and its implications for the "dinosaurs" of big media, the book is full of colorful portraits of American media icons such as Benjamin Franklin and late New York Times reporter David Halberstam. Any history book runs the risk of being bland, but Daly peppers the text with amusing anecdotes and intriguing facts (e.g., the idea for the first journalism courses, offered at Washington & Lee University, came from defeated Confederate General Robert E. Lee). Daly divides the major time periods in American journalism into five categories: politicization (1704-1832), commercialization (1833-1900), professionalization (1900-1974), conglomeration (1965-1995), and digitization (1995-present). These divisions make the narrative easy to follow for both students of journalism and casual enthusiasts. In addition to the interesting stories, Daly makes many cogent arguments about what the press has meant to the country's shared history and identity. Illus. (Apr. 20)
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  • ISBN-13: 9781558499119
  • Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
  • Publication date: 2/29/2012
  • Pages: 576
  • Sales rank: 412,201
  • Product dimensions: 6.90 (w) x 10.10 (h) x 1.70 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction 1

Part 1 The Press, 1704-1920

1 Foundations of the American Press, 1704-1763 Franklin and His Contemporaries 11

2 Printers Take Sides, 1763-1832 31

3 Putting the News in Newspapers, 1833-1850 56

4 Radicals All! 1830-1875: Covering Slavery and the Civil War 86

5 Crusaders and Conservatives, 1875-1912: Journalism in Yellow and Gray 112

6 Professionalizing the News in Peace and War, 1900-1920 151

Part II The Media, 1920

7 Jazz Age Journalism, 1920-1929: Magazines and Radio Challenge the Newspaper 185

8 Hard Times, 1929-1941: Three Great Columnists, Two Great Reporters, One Horrible Decade 215

9 The "Good War," 1941-1945 255

10 Creating Big Media, 1945-1963 287

11 Rocking the Establishment, 1962-1972 322

12 The Establishment Holds, 1967-1974 352

13 Big Media Get Bigger, 1980-1999 395

14 Going Digital, 1995- 435

Conclusion 455

Appendix: Major Periods in the History of U.S. Journalism 463

Notes 465

Bibliography 499

Acknowledgments 517

Index 521

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