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题名/责任者:

City of newsmen : public lies and professional secrets in Cold War Washington / Kathryn J. McGarr.

出版发行项:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.

ISBN:

9780226664040

载体形态项:

313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

个人责任者:

McGarr, Kathryn J., author.

论题主题:

Foreign news-Washington (D.C.)-History-20th century.

论题主题:

Journalists-Washington (D.C.)

论题主题:

Journalistic ethics-Washington (D.C.)

论题主题:

Journalism-Objectivity-Washington (D.C.)

论题主题:

Cold War-Press coverage-Washington (D.C.)

论题主题:

Government and the press-Washington (D.C.)-History-20th century.

地理名称主题:

United States-Foreign relations-1945-1989-Press coverage.

中图法分类号:

G219.712.9

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index.

内容附注:

Introduction. Challenging the memories -- Building a city of gentlemen -- The newsmen's wartime networks -- Responsible reporters and the exclusive information economy -- The gentlemen of the postwar press -- Battling the "residue of isolation" -- Covering imperialism in the postwar world -- The breakdown begins -- Conclusion. Disruption and continuity.

摘要附注:

"Kathryn McGarr reveals how the Cold War consensus was deliberately created, shaped, maintained, and protected by a coterie of influential journalists in Washington, DC, who calculated what they would do (or not do) for sustained access to information. The compact among journalists, elected officials, and other government operatives constrained knowledge for everyone in a time when political insight was centrally controlled and defined. Yet these reporters, many of them outsiders from the Midwest, did this not out of malfeasance but for social and political benefit, ever conscious of the need to cultivate, placate, and blend with their sources"--

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