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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thrift, Bryan Hardin (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
Subjects:	Helms, Jesse > Political and social views. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) > History. Mass media > Political aspects > United States. Conservatism > United States > History > 20th century. Television broadcasting of news > Objectivity > United States. Legislators > United States > Biography. United States > Politics and government.

Table of Contents:

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.