Fred W Friendly: 3 books
by Fred W. Friendly
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
This discourse on the importance of television in society presents Friendly's uncannily prescient views on the corrosive effect of money on the news business, the sensationalization of news reporting, and the viewing public's appetite for quality broadcasting.
With Edward R. Murrow, Fred Friendly...
by Fred W. Friendly
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Minnesota Rag takes the reader on a tour of the underside of a dark period in Minnesota's past, one filled with crooked public officials, vengeful gangsters, and yellow journalists. Featuring notorious characters such as Jay M. Near, racist and antilabor publisher of Minneapolis's Saturday Press,...
The Good Guys, the Bad Guys and the First Amendment
Free Speech Vs. Fairness in Broadcasting
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Unlike newspapers, TV and radio broadcasting is subject to government regulation in the form of the FCC and the Fairness Doctrine, which requires stations "to devote a reasonable amount of broadcast time to the discussion of controversial issues" and "to do so farily, in order to afford reasonable...