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This book will be worth getting. Better then never, though i am quite late in start reading this one. Its been written in an extremely basic way which is only right after i finished reading this book through which actually altered me, alter the way i believe. (Mr. Enrico Lesch)
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HARRY REASONER: A LIFE IN THE NEWS
University of Texas Press. Paperback. Book Condition: New. Paperback. 292 pages. Dimensions: 8.9in. x 5.9in. x 0.9in.Harry Reasoner was one of the most trusted and well-liked journalists of the golden age of network television news. Whether anchoring the evening newscast on CBS in the 1960s or on ABC in the 1970s, providing in-depth reporting on 60 Minutes, or hosting numerous special programs covering civil rights struggles, the Vietnam War, and Watergate, Reasoner had that almost mystical quality it seems to take for good television reporting, exuding this atmosphere of truth and believability, in the words of Walter Cronkite. Yet his reassuring manner and urbane, o en witty, on-air persona masked a man who was far more complex and contradictory. Though gi ed with the intelligence and drive to rise to the top of his profession, Reasoner was regarded by many colleagues as lazy and self-indulgent, a man who never achieved his full potential despite his many accomplishments. Harry Reasoner: A Life in the News covers the entire sweep of this enigmatic journalists life and career. Douglass K. Daniel opens with Reasoners Depression-era Midwestern upbringing and follows him through his early work in newspapers and radio before he joined CBS in 1956. Focusing on Reasoners thirty-five-year tenure in television news, Daniel presents fascinating, behind-the-scenes accounts of Reasoners key role in founding the top-rated newsmagazine 60 Minutes. He also explores Reasoners highly publicized move to ABC in 1970, where he anchored the nightly newscast, first with Howard K. Smith and later with Barbara Waltersa disastrous pairing from which Reasoners career never fully recovered. Based on scores of interviews and unpublished letters, memos, and other primary sources, this first biography of the man once rated second in credibility only to Walter Cronkite illuminates an entire era in broadcast journalism, as well as many of the...
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