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Review: Privileged Son by Dennis McDougal (2001)
Subtitle: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty After reading the uplifting story of The New York Times (The Power and the Glory), a book about the Los Angeles Times was downright depressing. Although Otis … Continue reading
Review: The Powers That Be by David Halberstam
The Powers That Be could have been titled The Road to Watergate. First published in the mid 1970s, it details the rise of four national media: Time, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and CBS television. The Powers That … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Non-Fiction, Journalism
Tagged Ben Bradlee, CBS News, China, Dan Rather, David Halberstam, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edward R. Murrow, Frank Stanton, Fred Friendly, Henry Kissinger, Henry Luce, John F. Kennedy, Katharine Graham, Los Angeles Times, Lyndon Baines Johnson, McCarthyism, Media History, New York Times, News Reporting, Norman Chandler, Otis Chandler, Pentagon Papers, Philip Graham, Richard Nixon, Theodore White, Time magazine, Vietnam, Walter Cronkite, Watergate, William Paley, World War II
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