The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s (Mediating American History) (Hardcover)
Review
Did you know Ed Murrow once wished aloud that television had never been invented? That was just one of many things I learned from this fine account of the beginning of TV news. Masterful research and a pleasure to read.”" –Bob Schieffer, CBS News chief Washington correspondent and moderator of Face the NationMike Conway skillfully reconstructs a lost chapter in the history of television: how a few creative and dedicated CBS employees invented television news in the 1940s. I (more…)