Television News and the Supreme Court: All the News That's Fit to Air?
Whitmore, Nancy, Journalism History
Slotnick, Elliot E. and Jennifer A. Segal. Television News and the Supreme Court. All the News That's Fit to Air? Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1998.264 pp. $19.95.
Television News and the Supreme Court focuses primarily on the nature of network television news coverage of the Court during the early 1980s through the mid- I 990s, a time frame referred to in the book as the "age of infotaimnent." To illuminate the coverage of the Court during this period, authors Elliot E. Slotnick and Jennifer A. Segal rely primarily on interviews and personal correspondence with veteran Court reporters Fred Graham (a former CBS reporter), Carl Stem (a former NBC reporter), and …
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Publication information:
Article title: Television News and the Supreme Court: All the News That's Fit to Air?.
Contributors: Whitmore, Nancy - Author.
Journal title: Journalism History.
Volume: 25.
Issue: 3
Publication date: Autumn 1999.
Page number: 119+.
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