Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the PressTemple University Press, 28/06/2007 - 201 من الصفحات Dark Days in the Newsroom traces how journalists became radicalized during the Depression era, only to become targets of Senator Joseph McCarthy and like-minded anti-Communist crusaders during the 1950s. Edward Alwood, a former news correspondent describes this remarkable story of conflict, principle, and personal sacrifice with noticeable élan. He shows how McCarthy's minions pried inside newsrooms thought to be sacrosanct under the First Amendment, and details how journalists mounted a heroic defense of freedom of the press while others secretly enlisted in the government's anti-communist crusade. Relying on previously undisclosed documents from FBI files, along with personal interviews, Alwood provides a richly informed commentary on one of the most significant moments in the history of American journalism. Arguing that the experiences of the McCarthy years profoundly influenced the practice of journalism, he shows how many of the issues faced by journalists in the 1950s prefigure today's conflicts over the right of journalists to protect their sources. |
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... committee met in the Caucus Room where the flamboyant Wis- consin senator Joseph McCarthy had held his most sensational hearings in 1953 and 1954. Led by Mississippi Democrat James Eastland and undeterred by McCarthy's political ...
... investigation in 1947 and its publication of a blacklist for the broadcast industry in 1950 , but the hunt for Reds in the nation's newsrooms did not begin in earnest until the Eastland hearings in 1955.21 Historical descriptions of ...
... Eastland investigation.36 One explanation may be the overwhelming emphasis that historians have placed on the flam- boyant senator from Wisconsin.37 The few scholars who have examined Eastland's inquiry relied exclusively on hearing ...
McCarthyism Aimed at the Press Edward Alwood. Eastland's inquiry relied exclusively on hearing transcripts. Most accounts have characterized it as an isolated incident aimed at the New York Times, a view fostered by the Times itself.38 ...
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CHAPTER THREE Prelude to an Investigation | 40 |
CHAPTER FOUR Reds in the Newsroom | 51 |
CHAPTER FIVE The Specter of McCarthy | 65 |
CHAPTER SIX Dark Clouds over the Newsroom | 80 |
CHAPTER SEVEN The Investigation | 95 |
CHAPTER EIGHT Deeper Trouble | 108 |
CHAPTER NINE Journalists and the First Amendment | 122 |
CHAPTER TEN Living with the Legacy | 138 |
Epilogue | 149 |
Notes | 155 |
Selected Bibliography | 191 |
Index | 195 |