| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 424 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-405) and index. |
| Contents |
Ferd -- "My Rhodes scholarship" -- "Willing to be lucky" -- See it now -- Friendly and Murrow -- Encounter with McCarthyism -- Aftermath -- CBS reports -- Camelot -- News president -- At the top of his game -- Vietnam -- Resignation -- Policy maker -- Professor -- PBL -- PBS -- The press and the bar -- Seminar -- Last years -- Friendlyvision. |
| Summary |
Fred Friendly (1915-1998) was the single most important personality in news and public affairs programming during the first four decades of American television. Portrayed by George Clooney in the film Good Night and Good Luck, Friendly, together with Edward R. Murrow, invented the television documentary format and subsequently oversaw the birth of public television. Juggling the roles of producer, policy maker, and teacher, Friendly had an unprecedented impact on the development of CBS in its heyday, wielded extensive influence at the Ford Foundation under the presidency of McG. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Friendly, Fred W.
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Friendly, Fred W. |
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Television producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
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Television producers and directors. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
Friendly vision |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Engelman, Ralph. Friendlyvision. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008040432 |
| ISBN |
9780231510202 (electronic book) |
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0231510209 (electronic book) |
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9780231136907 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0231136900 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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