When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America Hendershot Heather
When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America Hendershot Heather A riveting, blow-by-blow account of how the network broadcasts of the 1968 Democratic convention shattered faith in…
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When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America Hendershot Heather
A riveting, blow-by-blow account of how the network broadcasts of the 1968 Democratic convention shattered faith in American media. When some of that violence was then aired on network television, another kind of hell broke loose. "The whole world is watching!" cried protestors at the 1968 Democratic convention as Chicago police beat them in the streets.
No one--least of all Chicago mayor Richard J. Some viewers were stunned and outraged; others thought the protestors deserved what they got. Daley--was happy with how the networks handled it.In When the News Broke, Heather Hendershot revisits TV coverage of those four chaotic days in 1968--not only the violence in the streets but also the tumultuous convention itself, where Black citizens and others forcefully challenged southern delegations that had excluded them, anti-Vietnam delegates sought to change the