Thirty years ago American political life was all relentless,
painful, and confounding: the Tet Offensive brought new intensity
to the Vietnam War; President Lyndon Johnson would not seek
re-election; Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy were
assassinated; student protests rocked France; a Soviet invasion
ended "socialism with a human face" in Czechoslovakia; the Mexican
government massacred scores of peaceful demonstrators; and Richard
M. Nixon was elected president. Any one of the events of 1968 bears
claim to historical significance. Together they set off shock waves
that divided Americans into new and contending categories: hawks
and doves, old and young, feminists and chauvinists, straights and
hippies, blacks and whites, militants and moderates. As citizens
alive to their own time and as reporters responsible for making
sense of it, journalists did not stand aside from the conflicts of
1968. In their lives and in their work, they grappled with
momentous issues--war, politics, race, and protest.
The contributors to 1968: Year of Media Decision establish not
only what journalism meant in 1968, but also gauge the distance and
direction that news reporting has traveled since then. There are
contrasting essays by David Halberstam, a former war correspondent,
and Winant Sidle, a retired major general; former reporter and
author Jules Witcover, Jack Newfield on Robert Kennedy's final
hour, Curtis Gans on the "Dump Lyndon Johnson" campaign, Dan T.
Carter on George C. Wallace, Tom Wicker on Richard Nixon, and
Robert Shogan on the new political order. In "Race" Pamela Newkirk
discusses the origins and impact of the Kerner report. Robert
Lipsyte explores the 1968 Olympics. Robert Friedman details the
Columbia University strike, Claude-Jean Bertrand examines the
French protests, and there are essays by Mary Holland on Northern
Ireland, Madeline K. Albright on the press of the Prague Spring,
Suzanne Levine on "the bra that was never burned," and Raymundo
Riva Palacio on the Mexican media.
With the perspective of thirty years we can see that the events
of 1968, which once seemed to erupt out of nowhere, were the
consequences of powerful trends. At the same time gauging the
distance between then and now can help make it clear which
aftershocks of 1968 are with us and which collectively, have
disappeared. This volume tells us important things about not only
where journalism has been but where it is going.
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