Johnson and the Media
LYNDON JOHNSON WAS NOT just interested in mass media, he was obsessed. “You guys,” he told a network producer shortly before his death, “all you guys in the media. All of politics has changed because of you. You’ve broken all the machines and the ties between us in Congress and the city machines.” T...
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| Published in | Exploring the Johnson Years p. 214 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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University of Texas Press
29.07.2014
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | LYNDON JOHNSON WAS NOT just interested in mass media, he was obsessed. “You guys,” he told a network producer shortly before his death, “all you guys in the media. All of politics has changed because of you. You’ve broken all the machines and the ties between us in Congress and the city machines.” The President recognized the agenda-setting function of network news; he listened around the clock to know what the public was being told. “Television and radio were his constant companions,” biographer Doris Kearns declares. “Hugging a transistor radio to his ear as he walked through the fields of |
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| ISBN: | 9780292720312 0292720319 |
| DOI: | 10.7560/720312.11 |