Reading:
Martin Plissner, The Control Room: How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections (New York: Free Press, 1999), Chapter Five. NUS Library Holdings
Herman Gray, "Remembering Civil Rights: Television, Memory, and the 1960s," in Lynn Spigel and Michael Curtin, editors, The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict (New York: Routledge, 1996). NUS Library Holdings
Michael Winston, "Racial Consciousness and the Evolution of Mass Communications in the United States," Daedalus 111 (Fall 1982): 171-182.

Additional:
William C. Adams, "Media Power in Presidential Elections," in Doris A. Grader, editor, Media Power in Politics (Washington, D.C. : CQ Press,  1984). NUS Library Holdings
Nancy E. Bernhard, U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999). NUS Library Holdings
Julio Borquez, "Newsmaking and Policymaking: Steps toward a Dialogue" in Robert J. Spitzer editor,  Media and Public Policy (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1993). NUS Library Holdings
Richard Davis, The Press and American Politics: the New Mediator (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1996), Chapters Eleven and Twelve. NUS Library Holdings
Michael Emery and Edwin Emery, The Press and America: an Interpretive History of the Mass Media (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1992), Chapter Seventeen. "Challenge and Dissent." RBR. NUS Library Holdings
Albert Fried, editor, McCarthyism: the Great American Red Scare (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), Chapter 9. NUS Library Holdings
Lawrence K. Grossman, "The Electronic Republic," in Ray Eldon Hiebert editor, Impact of Mass Media: Current Issues (New York: Longman, 1999). NUS Library Holdings
Richard Harwood, "The Alienated American Voter: Are the News Media to Blame?," in Ray Eldon Hiebert editor, Impact of Mass Media: Current Issues (New York: Longman, 1999). NUS Library Holdings
Arthur Kaul, "The Unraveling of America," in Lloyd Chiasson, Jr., editor, The Press in Times of Crisis (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995). RBR
Sidney Kraus editor, The Great Debates: Kennedy vs. Nixon, 1960 (Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1977, c1962). NUS Library Holdings
Sidney Kraus, Televised Presidential Debates and Public Policy (Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1988). NUS Library Holdings
Joe McGinniss, "The Selling of the President, 1968" in The Sixties: Recollections of the Decade from Harper's Magazine (New York: Franklin Square Press, 1995). NUS Library Holdings
John H. Summers, "What Happened to Sex Scandals? Politics and Peccadilloes, Jefferson to Kennedy,"  Journal of American History 87.3 (2000): 825-854. Web version
Sam Tanenhaus, "Un-American Activities," New York Review of Books, 48 (November 30, 2000): 22-27. Web version
Jacob Weisberg, "Cold War Without End,"  New York Times Magazine (November 28, 1999) Web version
Clint C. Wilson and Felix Gutierrez, Race, Multiculturalism, and the Media: From Mass to Class Communication (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1995). NUS Library Holdings
 

The Media and the 2000 Election
Mediachannel.org

Greg Palast,  "Silence Of The Lambs: The Election Story Never Told" Web Version

Ian Gordon and Ryan Bishop, "The US Presidential Elections and Digital Media: A View from Singapore,"  (January 2001) Web version

Media suppress the news that Bush lost election to Gore
Sydney Morning Herald, October 22, 2001.

Lincoln and the Media
NYT reports Gettysburg address

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