CBS’s Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism

Loren Ghiglione

October, 2008
Cloth, 352 pages, 23 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-14496-4
$29.95 / £17.95

Introduction

1. The Boy from Lincoln

2. Working for William Randolph Hearst in Omaha

3. The Founding of PM, a “Newpaperman’s Ideal”

4. Politics at PM: Commies and “Good Liberals”

5. Covering World War II from Home and Abroad

6. Getting Fired by NBC and ABC, Then Hired by CBS

7. The Invention of CBS Views the Press

8. Jack O’Brian: Buffalo Dock-walloper to Broadway Drama Critic

9. Press Criticism: From Name-calling to Nuance

10. Jack O’Brian: Championing Decency, Fighting Soft-on-Communism Liberals

11. The Obsession with Subversives and Communist Spies

12. Jack O’Brian: Traveling with the Conservative, Anti-Commie Crowd

13. The Hearsts Versus Hollenbeck

14. Jack O’Brian: Attacking the Communist Broadcasting System

15. Loyalty Oaths, Blacklists, and Joseph McCarthy

16. The Walking Wounded

17. The Sermon in the Suicide

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Media Studies
• Television Studies

About the Author

Loren Ghiglione, the Richard Schwarzlose Professor of Media Ethics at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, owned and edited New England newspapers for twenty-six years and served as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors from 1989 to 1990. In 2007, he completed a term as president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, and he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Visit his website at: www.lorenghiglione.com.

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