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Conservative bias

Thrift, Bryan Hardin,

Conservative bias how Jesse Helms pioneered the rise of right-wing media and realigned the Republican Party / [electronic resource] : Bryan Hardin Thrift. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Jesse Helm's politics of pious incitement -- "There is another way": free enterprise, the mainstream media, and southern realignment in the 1950s -- "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 1960s -- The dawn of a conservative era: gaining power, 1968 to 1972 -- Epilogue: mainstreaming the fringe.

9780813048987


Helms, Jesse--Political and social views.


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


Legislators--United States--Biography.
Television broadcasting of news--Objectivity--United States.
Conservatism--History--United States--20th century.
Mass media--Political aspects--United States.


United States--Politics and government.


Electronic books.

E840.8.H44 / T47 2014

328.73/092