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Hoover Digest by topic: Politics and the Media
July 30, 2003
The Press Goes to War
Embedding reporters in military units reduced the “cynicism, general distrust, and enmity” that had marked relations between the Pentagon and the press for three decades. Hoover associate director Jeffrey C. Bliss on the first new approach to relations between the military and the media since Vietnam.SIDEBAR: Journalists and War
January 30, 2002
Mediapolitik
With global media networks such as CNN broadcasting throughout much of the world, the media now possess an unprecedented amount of power and influence. An assessment by Hoover media fellow Lee Edwards.
SIDEBAR: The Media and September 11
October 30, 2000
Cold War, Hot Debate
How Ted Turner lost the Cold War. By Hoover media fellow Helle Bering.
October 30, 2000
Why the Press Irks the GOP
Resentment of the media remains as basic to the identity of Republicans as does resentment of the English to the identity of the Irish." Hoover fellow Peter Robinson explains.
October 30, 1999
The Cold War over CNN’s Cold War
Earlier this year, CNN broadcast a twenty-four-hour television documentary on the Cold War, supplementing the documentary by publishing a companion book. The series created a furor. Critics charged that the series was inaccurate and—to use a phrase from the Cold War itself—soft on communism.
Herewith a debate among three historians. Richard Pipes explains what the television documentary got wrong. Hoover fellow Robert Conquest takes apart the companion book. Then John Lewis Gaddis, who served as an adviser to CNN, explains what CNN got right.