Beyond Malice: The Media's Years of Reckoning

by Richard M. Clurman

Book Overview

The national news media, as now practiced, were born in the 1950s, revealed their strength in the 1960s (Vietnam), asserted it in the 1970s (Watergate), and were hammered for it in the 1980s. By the mid- and late 1980s, after historic libel suits, with the press knocking off presidential candidates and Supreme Court nominees, unraveling the Reagan presidency, and in a position to overwhelm any individual or institution, a new era in press-public tension...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887382347
• ISBN13: 9780887382345
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"