Radio Journalism in America: Telling the News in the Golden Age and Beyond
- ISBN-10
- 0786469633
- ISBN-13
- 9780786469635
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-04-15
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Author
- Jim Cox
Description
"This is a volume of history validating the contributions of radio toward keeping America informed, and surveying radio's diminished effects in the wake of television in the 1950s. The U.S. was dependent on radio as a source of entertainment during the Great Depression and information gained from it during the Second World War had no parallel"--Provided by publisher.
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