The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making & Unmaking of the New Left
- ISBN-10
- 0520040244
- ISBN-13
- 9780520040243
- Series
- The Whole World is Watching
- Category
- College students
- Pages
- 327
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Todd Gitlin
Description
New preface for this classic of media studies. One of the founders of SDS describes the response of the various news organizations and arrives at the way the New Left came to be characterized.
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- 2003-05
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- 1980-01-01
- 327 pages
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