An in-depth examination of the Monitor's coverage of Joseph R. McCarthy.
Preface Introduction 1950: McCarthyism Begins 1951: McCarthy's Character Assassinations 1952: McCarthy in the National Spotlight 1953: McCarthy versus the Press and the Eisenhower Administration 1954: McCarthy's Demise The Legacy: The Monitor and McCarthy Bibliography Index
LAWRENCE N. STROUT is Gibbons Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Mississippi University for Women. Professor Strout was a broadcast journalist, 1975-1989, prior to his career as a teacher and researcher concentrating on broadcast and print journalism. His essays on American journalism history have appeared as book chapters as well as articles in Journal of American Culture and Media History Digest.
?[F]or readers who wonder how journalists ought--and ought not--to
balance truth and lies from any significant source, this book is as
fresh as today's news.?-Christian Science Monitor
?[This is a book that should appear on each and every high school
and university desk. It will do no less than to introduce them to
one of the most frightening periods in the world's most powerful
and infuential nation state.?-American Journalism
?[T]his is a readable, well-researched account of how newspapers
attempt to make a difference in times of national moral
crisis.?-Journalism History
?This is a definitive work--detailed research from a
researcher--beyond what one would need or want to know, yet
establishing for the record the Monitor's important role in the era
that was McCarthyism.'?-Journal of Political and Military
Sociology
"�F�or readers who wonder how journalists ought--and ought not--to
balance truth and lies from any significant source, this book is as
fresh as today's news."-Christian Science Monitor
"�This is a book that should appear on each and every high school
and university desk. It will do no less than to introduce them to
one of the most frightening periods in the world's most powerful
and infuential nation state."-American Journalism
"�T�his is a readable, well-researched account of how newspapers
attempt to make a difference in times of national moral
crisis."-Journalism History
"[F]or readers who wonder how journalists ought--and ought not--to
balance truth and lies from any significant source, this book is as
fresh as today's news."-Christian Science Monitor
"[This is a book that should appear on each and every high school
and university desk. It will do no less than to introduce them to
one of the most frightening periods in the world's most powerful
and infuential nation state."-American Journalism
"[T]his is a readable, well-researched account of how newspapers
attempt to make a difference in times of national moral
crisis."-Journalism History
"This is a definitive work--detailed research from a
researcher--beyond what one would need or want to know, yet
establishing for the record the Monitor's important role in the era
that was McCarthyism.'"-Journal of Political and Military Sociology
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