Unsilent revolution : television news and American public life, 1948-1991 / Robert J. Donovan and Ray Scherer.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-345) and index.

Police dogs, firehoses, and television cameras : shockwaves from the south -- Exit Joe McCarthy -- Television news and the ups and downs of Richard Nixon : the 1960 election -- Television's march on Cape Canaveral -- Television's supreme hour : the Kennedy funeral -- In the eye of the storm : television news and the urban riots -- Vietnam, 1965-1967 -- Vietnam, 1968-1975 -- Nixon's presidency : a difficult time for television news and the press -- Nixon in China and Watergate -- Infuriating pictures from Iran : television news, Jimmy Carter, and the Iranian hostage crisis -- The call : relief for the Ethiopian famine, 1984 -- The White House in the television age -- The television president : Reagan on prime time -- The television occupation of Capitol Hill -- From Dulles to Gorbachev : diplomacy and terrorism in the television age -- Television and the transformation of American politics, 1952-1984 -- 1988 -- Profound change in print journalism : the invasion by television news --

Newspapers in the age of television -- Television's intrusion in the press box -- Two different mediums : newspapers and television news -- Conclusion : Tiananmen Square, the Berlin Wall, the Persian Gulf War, and the Russian coup.