City of newsmen : public lies and professional secrets in Cold War Washington /
Kathryn McGarr reveals how the Cold War consensus was deliberately created, shaped, maintained and protected by a coterie of influential journalists in Washington, D.C., who calculated what they would do (or not do) for sustained access to information. The compact among journalists, elected official...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2022].
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| Summary: | Kathryn McGarr reveals how the Cold War consensus was deliberately created, shaped, maintained and protected by a coterie of influential journalists in Washington, D.C., who calculated what they would do (or not do) for sustained access to information. The compact among journalists, elected officials and other government operatives constrained knowledge for everyone in a time when political insight was centrally controlled and defined. Yet these reporters, many of them outsiders from the Midwest, did this not out of malfeasance but for social and political benefit, ever conscious of the need to cultivate, placate and blend with their sources. |
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| Physical Description: | 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226664040 022666404X |