TY - BOOK AU - Thrift,Bryan Hardin ED - Project Muse. TI - Conservative bias: how Jesse Helms pioneered the rise of right-wing media and realigned the Republican Party SN - 9780813048987 AV - E840.8.H44 T47 2014 U1 - 328.73/092 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Gainesville PB - University Press of Florida KW - Helms, Jesse KW - Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) KW - History KW - Legislators KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Television broadcasting of news KW - Objectivity KW - Conservatism KW - 20th century KW - Mass media KW - Political aspects KW - Politics and government KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813048987/ ER -