Joe McCarthy and the Press
Steinfels, Peter
In Brief Joe McCarthy and the Press by Edwin R. Bay ley, University of Wisconsin Press, $16.50, 270 pp. The daily papers, in New York and Washington as well as Wisconsin's small towns; the wire...
...peter steinfels...
...the wire services...
...The press neither created,McCarthy nor smeared him, as critics on the left and right have charged...
...television - Mr...
...McCarthy, however, had an instinctive gift for exploiting the press's appetite for quick, dramatic news and its indifference to slow, laborious follow-up...
...Bayley reviews this material in what may be excruciating detail to those for whom "McCarthyism" is only a flat political" phrase - but excruciating detail to those for whom it is a living memory...
...Bayley, who covered McCarthy as a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal and is now Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley, has carefully, studied their handling of the Wisconsin Senator's "crusade...
Vol. 109 • May 1982 • No. 9
