{"product_id":"the-whole-world-is-watching-mass-media-in-the-making-and-unmaking-of-the-new-left-paperback","title":"The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTodd Gitlin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The whole world is watching!\" chanted the demonstrators in the Chicago streets in 1968, as the TV cameras beamed images of police cracking heads into homes everywhere. In this classic book, originally published in 1980, acclaimed media critic Todd Gitlin first scrutinizes major news coverage in the early days of the antiwar movement. Drawing on his own experiences (he was president of the Students for a Democratic Society in 1963-64) and on interviews with key activists and news reporters, he shows in detail how the media first ignore new political developments, then select and emphasize aspects of the story that treat movements as oddities. He then demonstrates how the media glare made leaders into celebrities and estranged them from their movement base; how it inflated the importance of revolutionary rhetoric, destabilizing the movement, then promoted \"moderate\" alternatives--all the while spreading the antiwar message. Finally, Gitlin draws together a theory of news coverage as a form of anti-democratic social management--which he sees at work also in media treatment of the anti-nuclear and other later movements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUpdated for 2003 with a new preface, \u003ci\u003eThe Whole World Is Watching\u003c\/i\u003e is a subtle and sensitive book, true to the passions and ironic reversals of its subject, and filled with provocative insights that apply to the media's relationship with all activist movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the original edition: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo phenomenon in American life cries out for examination more than the impact of the news media on persons, movements, and events. One need not accept all of Gitlin's provocative conclusions to praise the exacting scholarship that has gone into this study of what happens to an anti-establishment movement performing on an establishment stage.--Daniel Schorr, commentator, National Public Radio \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn enormously useful book. . . . Gitlin writes about the way news organizations, as the category implies, 'organize' the news world, both for practitioners--reporters, editors, and managers--and for the consumers--readers, viewers, and perhaps even more important, decision-makers.--Frank Mankiewicz, \u003ci\u003eWashington Journalism Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGitlin tells us . . . how the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand CBS reported on Students for a Democratic Society, and how their choices mattered for the development of the 60s movement and the containment of serious political change.--Gaye Tuchman, \u003ci\u003eIn These Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the original edition: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No phenomenon in American life cries out for examination more than the impact of the news media on persons, movements, and events. One need not accept all of Gitlin's provocative conclusions to praise the exacting scholarship that has gone into this study of what happens to an anti-establishment movement performing on an establishment stage.\"--Daniel Schorr, commentator, National Public Radio \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An enormously useful book. . . . Gitlin writes about the way news organizations, as the category implies, 'organize' the news world, both for practitioners--reporters, editors, and managers--and for the consumers--readers, viewers, and perhaps even more important, decision-makers.\"--Frank Mankiewicz, \u003ci\u003eWashington Journalism Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gitlin tells us . . . how the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand CBS reported on Students for a Democratic Society, and how their choices mattered for the development of the 60s movement and the containment of serious political change.\"--Gaye Tuchman, \u003ci\u003eIn These Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTodd Gitlin\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten books, most recently \u003ci\u003eMedia Unlimited: How the Torrent of Image and Sound Overwhelms Our Lives \u003c\/i\u003e(2002). He is Professor of Journalism and Sociology at Columbia University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 8.98 x 6.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45054363500683,"sku":"9780520239326","price":82.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/dDcrMCtmVE9OT1hBY3pBY08rRlRDdz09.webp?v=1767210911","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/the-whole-world-is-watching-mass-media-in-the-making-and-unmaking-of-the-new-left-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}