Making the News: The Mid-century Black Freedom Struggle and the Development of Network Television News
Dunn Hall University of Maine, Orono, ME, United StatesMany point to the network era as a “golden age” of broadcast journalism when Americans could trust neutral reporters who told them the news the way it was. Except a lot of Americans did not. Television entered US homes in the mid-twentieth century, swiftly becoming the nation’s primary source of news just as the fight […]