Abstract
Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Twelve Episodes: 1. Police dogs, firehoses, and television cameras: shockwaves from the South 2. Exit Joe McCarthy 3. Television news and the ups and downs of Richard Nixon: the 1960 election 4. Television's march on Cape Canaveral 5. Television's supreme hour: the Kennedy funeral 6. In the eye of the storm: television news and the urban riots 7. Vietnam, 1965-1967 8. Vietnam, 1968-1975 9. Nixon's presidency: a difficult time for television news and the press 10. Nixon in China and Watergate 11. Infuriating pictures from Iran: television news, Jimmy Carter, and the Iranian hostage crisis 12. The call: relief for the Ethiopian famine, 1984 Part II. Ongoing Impact: 13. The White House in the television age 14. The television president: Reagan on prime time 15. The television occupation of Capitol Hill 16. From Dulles to Gorbachev: diplomacy and terrorism in the television age 17. Television and the transformation of American politics, 1952-1984 18. 1988 19. Profound change in print journalism: the invasion by television news 20. Newspapers in the age of television 21. Television's intrusion in the press box 22. Two different mediums: newspapers and television news 23. Conclusion: Tiananmen Square, the Berlin Wall, the Persian Gulf War, and the Russian coup Notes Index.
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