Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Proprietary Interest: Merchants, Journalists, and Antimonopoly in the 1880s 10
5. 2. Progressive Political Culture and the Widening Scope of Local Newspapers, 1880–1930 36
6. 3. The Ominous Clang: Fears of Propaganda from World War I to World War II 50
7. 4. When the “Mainstream Media” Was Conservative: Media Criticism in the Age of Reform 63
8. 5. “ We’re All in This Thing Together”: Cold War Consensus in the Exclusive Social World of Washington Reporters 77
9. 6. Objectivity and Its Discontents: The Struggle for the Soul of American Journalism in the 1960s and 1970s 96
10. 7. “No on 14”: Hollywood Celebrities, the Civil Rights Movement, and the California Open Housing Debate 114
11. 8. From “Faith in Facts” to “Fair and Balanced”: Conservative Media, Liberal Bias, and the Origins of Balance 126
12. 9. Abe Rosenthal’s Proj ect X: The Editorial Process Leading to Publication of the Pentagon Papers 144
13. 10. “Ideological Plugola,” “Elitist Gossip,” and the Need for Cable Television 160
14. 11. How Washington Helped Create the Con temporary Media: Ending the Fairness Doctrine in 1987 176
15. 12. The Multiple Political Roles of American Journalism 190
16. Notes 207
17. List of Contributors 247
18. Index 249