Engelman Friendlyvision

Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-51020-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Fred Friendly (1915-1998) was the single most important personality in news and public affairs programming during the first four decades of American television. Portrayed by George Clooney in the film Good Night and Good Luck, Friendly, together with Edward R. Murrow, invented the television documentary format and subsequently oversaw the birth of public television. Juggling the roles of producer, policy maker, and teacher, Friendly had an unprecedented impact on the development of CBS in its heyday, wielded extensive influence at the Ford Foundation under the presidency of McGeorge Bundy, and trained a generation of journalists at Columbia University during a tumultuous period of student revolt.

Ralph Engelman's biography is the first comprehensive account of Friendly's life and work. Known as a "brilliant monster," Friendly stood at the center of television's unique response to McCarthyism, Watergate, and the Vietnam War, and the pitched battles he fought continue to resonate in the troubled world of television news. Engelman's fascinating psychological portrait explores the sources of Friendly's legendary rage and his extraordinary achievement. Drawing on private papers and interviews with colleagues, family members, and friends, Friendlyvision is the definitive story of broadcast journalism's infamous "wild man," providing a crucial perspective on the past and future character of American journalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Engelman, Ralph

Weitere Mitwirkende

Safer, Morley

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Mediengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Morley Safer
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Salesman

Introduction

1. Ferd

2. "My Rhodes Scholarship"
3. "Willing to Be Lucky"

4. See It Now

5. Friendly and Murrow

6. Encounter with McCarthyism

7. Aftermath

8. CBS Reports

9. Camelot

10. News President

11. At the Top of His Game

12. Vietnam

13. Resignation
14. Policy Maker

15. Professor

16. PBL

17. PBS

18. The Press and the Bar

19. Seminar

20. Last Years

21. Friendlyvision

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ralph Engelman chairs the Journalism Department at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. A member of the jury of the George Polk Awards and the coordinator of the annual George Polk Awards Seminar, he is the author of Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History.