What the People Know Freedom and the Press
- List Price: $22.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 0674
- Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
- Publish date: 11/01/1998
Description:
The power and status of the press in America reached new heights after spectacular reporting triumphs in the segregated South, in Vietnam, and in Washington during the Watergate years. Then new technologies created instantaneous global reporting, which left the government unable to control the flow of information to the nation. The press thus became a formidable rival in critical struggling to control what the people know and when they know it. But that was more power than the press could handle -- and journalism crashed toward new lows in public esteem and public purpose.
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