The Decade That Shaped Television News: CBS in the 1950s by Sig Mickelson

By Sig Mickelson

Television information made meteoric development within the Fifties. It rose from being a plaything for the wealthy to a significant factor in informing the yank public, and an competitive rival to newspapers, radio, and information magazines. This quantity is an insider's account of the laborious and regularly serious steps undertaken by way of green staffs within the improvement of tv information, documentaries, and activities pronounces. the writer, the 1st president of CBS information, presents a treasure trove of proof and anecdotes approximately plotting within the corridors, the ascendancy of stars, and the retirement into oblivion of the fewer favored.

This quantity is a vital contribution to the heritage of tv journalism and may attraction either to journalism and broadcasting students and to these attracted to the meteoric upward push of television.

Show description

Read Online or Download The Decade That Shaped Television News: CBS in the 1950s (Collection) PDF

Best tv arts & entertainment books

Analyzing Mad Men: Critical Essays on the Television Series

AMC’s episodic drama Mad males has develop into a cultural phenomenon, detailing America’s preoccupation with commercialism and snapshot within the Camelot of Nineteen Sixties Kennedy-era the US, whereas self-consciously exploring present preoccupations. The 12 severe essays during this assortment provide a large, interdisciplinary method of this hugely appropriate tv express, studying Mad males as a cultural barometer for modern matters with consumerism, capitalism and sexism.

Interstellar: The Complete Screenplay With Selected Storyboards

In Interstellar a gaggle of explorers utilize a newly stumbled on wormhole to surpass the restrictions on human house trip and overcome the massive distances fascinated with an interstellar voyage. The screenplay of Interstellar is written by means of Christopher Nolan and his widespread collaborator, Jonathan Nolan.

Datavision² (French Edition)

<strong>Après le succès de Datavision, le nouveau chef-d'œuvre graphique de David McCandless. </strong>Le savoir est un artwork. Bien plus que des miscellanées visuelles, Datavision² est un voyage fantastique dans l'épaisseur de notre monde, de nos vies, de nos esprits, sublimé par l'humour et le variety inimitable de David McCandless.

Style, Mediation, and Change: Sociolinguistic Perspectives on Talking Media (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics)

Technologically mediated speak is prepared round generic styles-styles of individual, courting and style. yet media additionally continually remake and re-style those generic styles. This publication brings jointly unique learn on media styling in numerous nationwide contexts and languages, written by way of authors on the vanguard of sociolinguistic learn on mediated speak.

Additional resources for The Decade That Shaped Television News: CBS in the 1950s (Collection)

Example text

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.97 of 5 – based on 23 votes