Conservative bias : how Jesse Helms pioneered the rise of right-wing media and realigned the Republican Party / Bryan Hardin Thrift.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thrift, Bryan Hardin.

Series:

Sunbelt Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Political aspects--United States.

Mass media.

Conservatism--United States--History--20th century.

Conservatism.

Television broadcasting of news--Objectivity--United States.

Television broadcasting of news.

Legislators--United States--Biography.

Legislators.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History.

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ).

Helms, Jesse--Political and social views.

Helms, Jesse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An exploration of how Jesse Helms pioneered the attack on the liberal media while building a new form of southern conservativism, centering on his time as executive vice president of WRAL-TV in Raleigh.

Contents:

Introduction: Jesse Helm's politics of pious incitement

"There is another way": free enterprise, the mainstream media, and southern realignment in the 1950's

"The voice of free enterprise": a conservative commentator and news director

"An uncommon number of moral degenerates": the conservative alternative and the fairness doctrine

Backlash: the great society, Vietnam, and conservative solutions

Turning off turn-on: Helms as a TV executive in the 1960's

The dawn of a conservative era: gaining power, 1968 to 1972

Epilogue: mainstreaming the fringe.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5013-8

0-8130-4898-2

OCLC:

865578981