Conservative bias [electronic resource] : how Jesse Helms pioneered the rise of right-wing media and realigned the Republican Party / Bryan Hardin Thrift.
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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN: - 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 -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States
- United States -- Politics and government
- 328.73/092 23
- E840.8.H44 T47 2014
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.
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