MEDIA AND POLITICS IN MODERN US HISTORY
CO-SPONSORED BY BOSTON UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, AND PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Thursday, March 19, 2015 in CAS 200 (725 Commonwealth Avenue)
8:30-9:30 COFFEE AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:30 WELCOME
–Gary Gerstle, Cambridge University
–Bruce Schulman, Boston University
–Julian Zelizer, Princeton University
9:45-11:45 SESSION 1–Media and Politics in the Postwar Era
–Nicole Hemmer, Miami University
“From ‘Faith in Facts’ to ‘Fair and Balanced’: Conservative Media, Liberal Bias, and the Origins of Balance.”
–Emilie Raymond, Virginia Commonwealth University
“The Civil Rights Movement and Celebrity Politics.”
––Kathryn McGarr, Princeton University
“’We’re All in This Thing Together’: The Blurred Social and Political Lives of Reporters in Post-World War II Washington.”
DISCUSSANT: Gary Gerstle, Cambridge University
12:00-2:00 LUNCH
2:00-4:00 CAS 200–SESSION 2–Journalism and Politics in the Post World War II Era
–Michael Schudson, Columbia University
“The Multiple Political Roles of Journalism 1945-1976”
–Matthew Pressman, Boston University,
“Objectivity and Its Discontents: The Struggle for the Soul of American
Journalism in the 1960s and 70s”
–Kevin Lerner , Marist College
“Abe Rosenthal’s Project X: The Editorial Process Leading to the
Publication of the Pentagon Papers.”
DISCUSSANT: Bradford Martin, Bryant University
4:30 RECEPTION AT BU HISTORY DEPT., 226 BAY STATE RD, ROOM 504
7:00 DINNER FOR CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS, HOPS N’ SCOTCH, COOLIDGE CORNER, BROOKLINE, MA
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2015. PHOTONICS BUILDING, 9th Floor (8 St. Mary’s St)
8:30-9:15 Continental Breakfast
9:15-11:15 SESSION 3–The State and The Press in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
—-Richard R. John, Columbia University
“The Antimonopoly Persuasion and Media Politics in the Late Nineteenth Century”
–David Greenberg, Rutgers University
“The Ominous Clang: Fears of Propaganda from World War I to World War II
and the Liberal Failure of Nerve”
—Sam Lebovic, George Mason University
“The Problem of Press Freedom and the Limits of the New Deal.”
DISCUSSANT: Brooke Blower, Boston University
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 SESSION 4–The Changing World of TV News
–Kathryn Brownell, Purdue University
“Waging War Against Media Institutions: Richard Nixon and the Transformation
of Cable Television.”
–Gabriel Sherman, Contributing Editor, New York Magazine
“Thought Pattern Revolution: Roger Ailes, TVN Inc. and the Secret Origins of Fox News”
Julian Zelizer, Princeton University
“How Government Helped to Create the Modern Media: Ending the Fairness Doctrine in 1987″
DISCUSSANT, Chris Daly, Boston University
1:00-1:30 Concluding Remarks
1:30-2:30 Concluding Lunch