{"product_id":"9781844679423","title":"News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media","description":"Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America’s racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country’s media system, just as the media has contributed to—and every so often, combated—racial oppression. \u003ci\u003eNews for All the People\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how racial segregation distorted the information Americans received from the mainstream media. It unearths numerous examples of how publishers and broadcasters actually fomented racial violence and discrimination through their coverage. And it chronicles the influence federal media policies exerted in such conflicts. It depicts the struggle of Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American journalists who fought to create a vibrant yet little-known alternative, democratic press, and then, beginning in the 1970s, forced open the doors of the major media companies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe writing is fast-paced, story-driven, and replete with memorable portraits of individual journalists and media executives, both famous and obscure, heroes and villains. It weaves back and forth between the corporate and government leaders who built our segregated media system—such as Herbert Hoover, whose Federal Radio Commission eagerly awarded a license to a notorious Ku Klux Klan organization in the nation’s capital—and those who rebelled against that system, like \u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Courier\u003c\/i\u003e publisher Robert L. Vann, who led a remarkable national campaign to get the black-face comedy \u003ci\u003eAmos ’n’ Andy\u003c\/i\u003e off the air.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on years of original archival research and up-to-the-minute reporting and written by two veteran journalists and leading advocates for a more inclusive and democratic media system, \u003ci\u003eNews for All the People\u003c\/i\u003e should become the standard history of American media.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114782802160,"sku":"9781844679423","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781844679423_p0.jpg?v=1763742612","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781844679423","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}