Congress and the news media / edited, with commentaries and contributions by Robert O. Blanchard.
An examination of the role of the media in current political processes -- not only its role as watchdog against political wrongs, but also its little-understood and changing relationship with Congress.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Hastings House Publishers,
[1974]
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| Series: | Studies in public communication.
Communication arts books. |
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Table of Contents:
- The reporter's place in the house: a debate, 1789-90 / Annals of Congress
- Access for the official press: a debate, 1800 / Annals of Congress
- The letter-writers in the senate / Frederick B. Marbut
- The standing committee of correspondents / Frederick B. Marbut
- Access for the underground press / Luther A. Huston
- Modern accommodation: the new patronage? / James White
- Emigration of power to the little legislatures / J. Russell Wiggins
- Equality of access for broadcast journalism / William Small
- Modern access for broadcast: congressional hearings, 1969 / Special Subcommittee on Legislative Reorganization
- The executive dominates the news / Thomas Curtis
- Equal time for congress: congressional hearings, 1970 / Communications Subcommittee, Senate Commerce Committee
- Congressional use of publicity / Francis E. Rourke
- Congress, publicity and public policy / Nelson W. Polsby
- The value of publicity / Charles L. Clapp
- Mr. Agnew, you are wrong about the press / Bob Eckhardt
- Member attitudes on news media role / William L. Hungate
- Guess who's not coming to the Gridiron Club dinner? / Shirley Chisholm
- An oldtimer's view of the press / Richard Bolling
- A newcomer's view of the press / Clem Miller
- The variety of correspondents / Robert O. Blanchard
- The correspondents describe their work / Robert O. Blanchard
- Symbiosis: congress and the press / Delmer Dunn
- The stuff of which good reporting is made / Douglass Cater
- Covering the senate / Donald R. Matthews
- A view from the president's room / Richard L. Riedel
- Senator Lyndon Johnson: a correspondent's view / Stewart Alsop
- Senator Wayne Morse: a correspondent's view / A. Robert Smith
- Correspondents as participants: case I / Bert Andrews
- Correspondents as participants: case II / Noel Epstein
- The news media and the Bobby Baker case / Laurence Stern and Erwin Knoll
- Nobody covers the house / Michael Green
- The press and Washington's own suburban five / Lewis W. Wolfson
- The congressional hearing as publicity vehicle / Douglass Cater
- Congress, television and war protests / William Small
- The Sam Ervin show / Laurence Leamer
- TV lights, invitations, kisses and phone calls / Jeannette Smyth
- Keeping in touch with the people, getting along with the press ... / Donald G. Tacheron and Morris Udall
- And frankly, getting reelected / Mark J. Green, James M. Fallows and David R. Zwick
- Congress and the media: partners in propaganda / Ben H. Bagdikian
- The selling of the Pentagon: partisan involvements and antagonisms / Jerome Barron
- The first amendment and broadcast journalism: a debate, 1971 / Congressional record
- A new FOI watchdog needs watching / Robert O. Blanchard
- The federal shield law we need / Fred P. Graham and Jack C. Landau
- The potential dangers of shield legislation / Charles L. Bennett
- The battle of Watergate TV / George Larnder, Jr.
- Fair trial and the Watergate hearings / John J. Sirica
- Due process of law / The times
- TV's incandescent and damaging presence in the hearing room / Spiro Agnew
- Due process and the president / Washington post
- Trial by publicity? / Jules Witcover
- Nixon and his aides believe hearing is a witchhunt / Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstin.