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The Ghost of Television News in Media History Scholarship

 

Notes

1 Jack Gould, “TV: A Chapter of Honor,” New York Times, November 26, 1963, 11.

2 Reuven Frank, Out of Thin Air: The Brief Wonderful Life of Network News (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991), 190.

3 Amy Mitchell, Jeffrey Gottfried, Michael Barthel, and Elisa Shearer, “The Modern News Consumer: News Attitudes and Practices in the Digital Era,” Pew Research Center, July 7, 2016, http://www.journalism.org/2016/07/07/the-modern-news-consumer/.

4 We included one Journalism History issue from 2017 to complete volume 42. Journalism History began in 1974, but we limited our analysis to the years that both journals have been published.

5 Note that the percentages involve all articles in the journals, including those without a specific medium focus.

6 Thomas Doherty, Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), 2.

7 Robert W. McChesney, Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media (New York: New Press, 2007), 20.

8 John Hartley, Uses of Television (London: Routledge, 1999), 103.

9 Ibid., 104.

10 The Roper Organization, Public Perceptions of Television and Other Mass Media: A Twenty-year Review 1959–1978 (New York: Television Information Office, 1979); Arville Schaleben, “What Survey Do You Believe?,” Saturday Review, May 12, 1962, 72–73; Bruce H. Westley, “Some Correlates of Media Credibility,” Journalism Quarterly 41, no. 3 (1964): 325–335; John P. Robinson, “Daily News Habits of the American Public,” ANPA News Research Report 15 (September 22, 1978): 1–6; Guido H. Stempel III, “Where People Really Get Most of Their News,” Newspaper Research Journal 12, no. 4 (1991): 2–9.

11 Daniel Hallin, “The Passing of the ‘High Modernism’ of American Journalism,” Journal of Communications 42, no. 3 (1992): 14–25.

12 Herbert J. Gans, Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek & Time (New York: Pantheon Books, 1979); Gaye Tuchman, Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality (New York: Free Press, 1978); Edward Jay Epstein, News from Nowhere: Television and the News (New York: Random House, 1973).

13 Lauren Bratslavsky, “The Archive and Disciplinary Formation: A Historical Moment in Defining Mass Communications,” American Journalism 32, no. 2 (2015): 116–137.

14 Vanderbilt Television News Archive, accessed March 9, 2017, https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu.

15 Internet Archive, accessed March 9, 2017, https://archive.org.

16 The Archive of American Television, accessed March 9, 2017, www.emmytvlegends.org.

17 Eyes of a Generation, accessed March 9, 2017, http://eyesofageneration.com; Newsphotog, accessed March 9, 2017, http://www.newsphotog.net. Both of these are updated regularly on Facebook.

18 Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (New York: Penguin Books, 1985); Ron Powers, The Newscasters: The News Business as Show Business (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977).

19 Mike Conway, “‘See It Now’: Television News,” in Getting the Picture: The Visual Culture of the News, ed. Jason E. Hill and Vanessa R. Schwartz. (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), 168–175.

20 John H. McManus, Market-driven Journalism: Let the Citizen Beware? (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994).

21 Reuven Frank, “Transmission of Experience” memo, “Personal Speeches—Written Works, ’63–71” folder, Box 13107551, Reuven Frank Papers 1940–2008, Tisch Library, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.

22 Michael D. Murray and Donald G. Godfrey, eds., Television in America: Local Station History from Across the Nation (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1997); Mary E. Beadle and Michael D. Murray, Indelible Images: Women of Local Television (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2001); Craig M. Allen, News Is People: The Rise of Local TV News and the Fall of News from New York (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2001).

23 David Paul Nord, History,” in The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, Vol. 2, ed. Klaus Bruhn Jensen and Robert T. Craig (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), 841.

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