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050 00 $aE840.8.H44$bT47 2014
082 00 $a328.73/092$223
100 1 $aThrift, Bryan Hardin,$eauthor.
245 10 $aConservative bias :$bhow Jesse Helms pioneered the rise of right-wing media and realigned the Republican Party /$cBryan Hardin Thrift.
264 1 $aGainesville :$bUniversity Press of Florida,$c[2014]
264 4 $c©2014
300 $axii, 262 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Jesse Helm's politics of pious incitement -- "There is another way": free enterprise, the mainstream media, and southern realignment in the 1950s -- "The voice of free enterprise": a conservative commentator and news director -- "An uncommon number of moral degenerates": the conservative alternative and the fairness doctrine -- Backlash: the great society, Vietnam, and conservative solutions -- Turning off turn-on: Helms as a TV executive in the 1960s -- The dawn of a conservative era: gaining power, 1968 to 1972 -- Epilogue: mainstreaming the fringe.
520 $aAn exploration of how Jesse Helms pioneered the attack on the liberal media while building a new form of southern conservativism, centering on his time as executive vice president of WRAL-TV in Raleigh.
600 10 $aHelms, Jesse$xPolitical and social views.
610 20 $aRepublican Party (U.S. : 1854- )$xHistory.
650 0 $aMass media$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aConservatism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aTelevision broadcasting of news$xObjectivity$zUnited States.
650 0 $aLegislators$zUnited States$vBiography.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government.