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CBS's Don Hollenbeck, an honest reporter in the age of McCarthyism, Loren Ghiglione

Label
CBS's Don Hollenbeck, an honest reporter in the age of McCarthyism, Loren Ghiglione
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-316) and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
CBS's Don Hollenbeck
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Loren Ghiglione
Sub title
an honest reporter in the age of McCarthyism
Table Of Contents
The boy from Lincoln -- Working for William Randolph Hearst in Omaha -- The founding of PM, a "newspaperman's ideal" -- Politics at PM: commies and 'good liberals" -- Covering World War II from home and abroad -- Getting fired by NBC and ABC, then hired by CBS -- The invention of CBS Views the press -- Jack O'Brian: Buffalo dock-walloper to Broadway drama critic -- Press criticism: from name-calling to nuance -- Jack O'Brian: championing decency, fighting soft-on-Communism liberals -- The obsession with subversives and Communist spies -- Jack O'Brian: traveling with the Conservative, Anti-Commie crowd -- The Hearts versus Hollenbeck -- Jack O'Brian: attacking the Communist broadcasting system -- Loyalty oaths, blacklists, and Joseph McCarthy -- The walking wounded -- The sermon in the suicide
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