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Hoffmann, Joyce Margaret.

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From Chungking to Camelot: Theodore H. White and the journalism of illusion.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From Chungking to Camelot: Theodore H. White and the journalism of illusion./
Author:	Hoffmann, Joyce Margaret.
Description:	269 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Paul Baker.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International55-04A.
Subject:	Biography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9422932

From Chungking to Camelot: Theodore H. White and the journalism of illusion.
Hoffmann, Joyce Margaret.

From Chungking to Camelot: Theodore H. White and the journalism of illusion. - 269 p.

Adviser: Paul Baker.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 1994.

This dissertation examines the life and work of Theodore H. White, the twentieth century journalist and historian whose most significant contribution to American journalism was the trend-setting Making of the President campaign chronicles which began in 1960. The focus of this study is on the first quarter century of White's career as a journalist--a period which began with his travels through Europe and China in the Fall of 1938 and ended with the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November of 1963. A fascinating portrait in the development of a journalist emerges from the largely unexplored material in the Theodore H. White Archive which opened in 1992 at Harvard University. The aspirations, ideals, crusades, and conflicts of White's youth and middle age all take shape on the hundreds of pages of letters, diaries, and notes that he donated to his alma mater following his death in 1986.Subjects--Topical Terms:

531296
Biography.

From Chungking to Camelot: Theodore H. White and the journalism of illusion.
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520 $a This dissertation examines the life and work of Theodore H. White, the twentieth century journalist and historian whose most significant contribution to American journalism was the trend-setting Making of the President campaign chronicles which began in 1960. The focus of this study is on the first quarter century of White's career as a journalist--a period which began with his travels through Europe and China in the Fall of 1938 and ended with the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November of 1963. A fascinating portrait in the development of a journalist emerges from the largely unexplored material in the Theodore H. White Archive which opened in 1992 at Harvard University. The aspirations, ideals, crusades, and conflicts of White's youth and middle age all take shape on the hundreds of pages of letters, diaries, and notes that he donated to his alma mater following his death in 1986.
520 $a Two discernible patterns in the practice of American journalism are conspicuous in the archival material--patterns I call "the journalism of illusion" and "the journalism of consensus." Using White as a representative figure for his generation, it is clear that both collusion and illusion were part of the journalistic tradition in post World War II America. White and his contemporaries made collective decisions about what qualified as news and created false expectations on critical foreign and domestic issues. Through their varied commitments to causes, ideologies, and personalities, White and his contemporaries became assistants in the policy making process while they simultaneously maintained a pose as the disinterested, objective journalist for their reading public. White was sometimes aware of the deceptions he concocted and anguished over them. At other times he was unaware that his journalism was a form of sophistry because his colleagues all shared similar interests and values--which invariably led them to the same sources of news. The journalism of illusion and the journalism of consensus reached a convergence (converged like two great rivers) during the presidency of John F. Kennedy, whose charm captivated the media and whose understanding of political theater was flawless. The importance of examining this era of American journalism has little to do with the compromises and ethical lapses that are revealed in White's archive. The importance is, instead, in how White's professional practices reveal the inherent shortcomings in the system of so-called objective journalism. It was, after all, White and his contemporaries on whom Americans depended for the information on which to make intelligent decisions about their nation and its future.
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