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Joe McCarthy and the Press Paperback – October 22, 1981

by Edwin R. Bayley (Author)
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
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    270 pages
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    English
  3. Publisher
    University of Wisconsin Press
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    October 22, 1981
  5. Dimensions
    9.06 x 6.7 x 0.82 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0299086240
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0299086244
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"No one who cares about liberty will read Mr. Bayley's masterful study without a shudder about the journalistic cop-outs that contributed to making the nightmare called McCarthyism. This book reminds us that it could happen here, but perhaps will make it harder to happen next time."—Daniel Schorr

"Thorough, incisive and fascinating, this is the best account we have of the strange relationship between Joe McCarthy and the American press."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

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"No one who cares about liberty will read Mr. Bayley's masterful study without a shudder about the journalistic cop-outs that contributed to making the nightmare called McCarthyism. This book reminds us that it could happen here, but perhaps will make it harder to happen next time."--Daniel Schorr

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Wisconsin Press; 1st edition (October 22, 1981)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 270 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0299086240
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0299086244
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.06 x 6.7 x 0.82 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

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Willie Tubbs
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2015
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Insightful work that disrupts your preconceptions of McCarthy and the press. Traditionally, popular memory holds that McCarthy and the press were opposed. This monolithic understanding of history simply will not hold up in the face of Bayley's research. Well worth the read for anyone interested in media history, American history, or simply in learning more about how the news process works.
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Terry Rob
1.0 out of 5 stars Reads like a set of footnotes.
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2017
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Nothing pulls this book together. It is a litany of lists with no real point. I can not imagine why any editor thought this was a book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The press hasn't learned
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2016
If only Dan Schorr, who blurbed this book when it came out, were around today to provide much-needed critical commentary to this year's demagoguery. It seems, after all, that American media hasn't learned.
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The Ginger Man
4.0 out of 5 stars It Can Happen Here
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2008
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This is a dispassionate and important analysis of a man and a time that still produces strong emotional reactions on both sides of the political spectrum. The author was a political reporter for the Milwaukee Journal from 1946-1959 and had a first hand view of the rise of Joe Mccarthy. Bayley attempts to examine the role of the press in McCarthy's ascent from obscure senator to one of the most well known people in the Free World. He considers the period from his speech in West Virginia in 1950 through the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954. Bayley examines 129 newspapers during this period from all parts of the country and interviews more than 40 reporters and McCarthy associates.

He concludes that the mechanics of wire service and daily newspaper reporting helped gave credibility to the unsubstantiated charges made continuously by McCarthy. He quotes Roy Cohn saying that the senator's primary goal was to influence public opinion through the press. The author shows how the Senator and his staff worked the media consistantly and effectively.

The wire services competed to provide copy to newspapers. As a result, whatever the Senator said was news simply because it was said by a Senator. With little time for analysis, the papers would carry the next set of charges even if they contradicted the last information from McCarthy. Former United Press reporter John Steele told Bayley, "There was little opportunity in those days to break out of the role of being a recording device for Joe...I felt trapped...The feeling of powerlessness was terrible." Local editors then carried the wire stories because they "refused to believe that McCarthy would make such charges without having the evidence to back them up."

As a result, at its peak in 1954, "it was not unusual for a paper to carry 15 to 20 stories a day in which McCarthy was a central figure."

The limitations and the reach of the media is very different today. Spin techniques are both more sophisticated and more obvious. But the need to understand the media's limitations as a purveyor of public information is just as important now as it was at the height of McCarthyism. This little known volume from a University Press deserves wider readership given the importance of this evolving relationship
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