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BL
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636063
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Thrift, Bryan Hardin
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| Title & Author
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Conservative bias : : how Jesse Helms pioneered the rise of right-wing media and realigned the Republican Party /\ Bryan Hardin Thrift.
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xii, 262 pages :: illustrations, portraits ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780813049311 (alk. paper)
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: 0813049318 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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Helms, Jesse-- Political and social views.
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Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )-- History.
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Mass media-- Political aspects-- United States.
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Conservatism-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Television broadcasting of news-- Objectivity-- United States.
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Legislators-- United States, Biography.
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United States, Politics and government.
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| Dewey Classification
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328.73/092
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E840.8.H44T47 2014
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