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Author Thrift, Bryan Hardin, author

Title Conservative Bias : How Jesse Helms Pioneered the Rise of Right-Wing Media and Realigned the Republican Party / Bryan Hardin Thrift
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Sunbelt Studies
Sunbelt studies.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Helms, Jesse -- Political and social views
SUBJECT Helms, Jesse fast
Subject Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- History
SUBJECT Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) fast
Subject Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States
Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Television broadcasting of news -- Objectivity -- United States
Legislators -- United States -- Biography
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Conservatism
Legislators
Mass media -- Political aspects
Political and social views
Politics and government
Television broadcasting of news -- Objectivity
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
Subject United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813048987
0813048982
0813050138
9780813050133