On bended knee : the press and the Reagan presidency /

" ... a history and an indictment of the relationship between the major news media and the Reagan Administration. Based on more than 175 interviews with most of the key figures in the White House and the press, and on a comprehensive analysis of newspaper and television coverage of such stories...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hertsgaard, Mark, 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1988
New York : 1988
New York : 1988
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • "All these killers"
  • The gang of four
  • "Manipulation by inundation"
  • A palace court press
  • "A great Capitalist instrument"
  • "Jelly-bean journalism"
  • "An amiable dunce"
  • Censorship at CBS
  • Defusing the cowboy image
  • The Grenada high
  • The new party bosses
  • The nuclear thunder
  • In front of their noses
  • High crimes and misdemeanors
  • Witless malevolence