World War II on the air : Edward R. Murrow and the broadcasts that riveted a nation /

Bernstein, Mark.

World War II on the air : Edward R. Murrow and the broadcasts that riveted a nation / Mark Bernstein & Alex Lubertozzi. - Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks MediaFusion, c2003. - xv, 284 p. : ill. 25 cm. +

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-270) and index.

There was no television, no satellites and no information superhighway to spread the news when Hitler invaded Poland. There was radio. Murrow not only invented modern broadcast journalism from the streets of London, he recruited reporters that covered the war from capitals and battlefields. CD includes actual broadcasts. www.alibris.com

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Journalists--United States
World War, 1939-1945

PN 4874.M89 / .B458 2003