U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960

Contents Illustrations and Tables = xv Acknowledgments = xvii Abbreviations = xix Introduction The Marketplace of Ideas : Selling the Cold War Consensus = 1 Institutional Logics = 4 Excavating Culture = 7 Overview = 12 Chapter One Market Failure : Business, The State, and Information From World War Ⅱ to Cold War = 17 The Failure of Truth = 18 The Brief Triumph of Voluntary Private Information = 21 The Lion and the Lamb = 23 Words Are Weapons = 30 A Market Failure = 34 Managing the Marketplace of Ideas = 43 Chapter Two A Weapon for Truth : Democracy and the Advent Of Television News = 46 An X-ray and a Mirror = 48 Reluctant Partners = 54 "Free Television" = 59 The History of Objectivity = 65 Invisible Power = 68 Chapter Three Clearer Than Truth : The State Department's Domestic Information Programs, 1947-1953 = 69 Not a Friend in Sight = 69 The First Programs = 74 "The Attack of the Primitives" = 79 A Scare Campaign = 83 Learning to Work the Networks = 86 Disaster in Korea = 89 Clearer than Truth = 91 Chapter Four Ready, Willing, Able : Television Responds To the Korean Crisis, 1950-1953 = 94 A Brief Panic = 95 Voluntarism Defined = 97 To Withstand Attack = 101 Asking for Censorship = 104 The Defense Bulletion = 109 We Must Unite Our Forces = 111 Chapter Five Closer to Your Government : The White House and NBC Present Battle Report - Washington, 1950-1953 = 115 Good Play = 117 The Fabulous Jones Boys = 120 Bloodthirsty Barbarians and the Future of Civilization = 122 Ours is a Commercial Society = 125 Outside the Realm of Political Controversy = 129 Chapter Six A Mor Vivid Picture of War : The Defense Department's Domestic Information Programs, 1948-1960 = 132 Unification Battles = 134 Boring Filler = 139 Pictures Against Appeasement = 143 Dramatic License = 149 Chapter Seven The Most Vigorous Anticommunist Campaign : Objectivity and Consensus Journalism = 155 The Literature on McCarthy and Objectivity in Print Journalism = 156 Television and Objectivity = 158 Meet the Press and the Normative Objectification of Anticommunism = 162 Standards of Anticommunism = 166 Policing Anticommunism = 169 Historicizing Objectivity : The Narrative of Chastened Liberalism = 174 Conclusion Selling America : Corporate Prerogatives and The National Interest = 178 The Blurred Line Between Culture and Conspiracy = 178 Whitewash in Greece = 184 The "Mighty Wurlitzer" = 184 A Certain Price = 187 Notes = 191 Bibliography = 222 Index = 233

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