This article examines changes in Slovak media legislation during the accession period leading up ... more This article examines changes in Slovak media legislation during the accession period leading up to the joining of the European Union in May 2004. After providing a summary of the evolution of EU broadcasting policies, the authors first review the politicized nature of media development in Slovakia during the first decade of the post-communist experience, most importantly the private ownership of print media and a dual system of private and public broadcast media. The legacy of the restricted democracy that characterized the first five years of the independence of Slovakia was a commitment by the opposition at that time to civil society. The Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting, with EU guidance, prepared three laws, adopted by the Slovak parliament in 2000-01, which created the current legal media framework. Slovakia not only adopted the legislation required for EU accession, but at the same time it also advanced media regulation in other areas. The Slovak experience sugge...
* Combat Correspondents: The Baltimore Sun in World War II. Joseph R.L. Sterne. Baltimore, MD: Th... more * Combat Correspondents: The Baltimore Sun in World War II. Joseph R.L. Sterne. Baltimore, MD: The Maryland Historical Society, 2009. 281 pp. $34 pbk. When historians and World War ? history buffs think about World War II correspondents, names such as Ernie PyIe, Edward R. Murrow, Hal Boyle, Richard Tregaskis, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, and others come up - journalists and writers who reported for national news organizations and publications. They don't think of names such as Mark Watson, Lee McCardell, Price Day, and Holbrook Bradley. These four and many others reported for this country's metropolitan and regional newspapers, paying special attention to soldiers, sailors, and civilians from their newspaper's readership areas while also often providing standard coverage of the fighting. They did not necessarily spend the duration of the war at the front, dependent as they were on the financial situation of their papers, as well as the plans and ideas of their editors and publishers. These four reporters were the stars among the ten sent abroad by the Baltimore Sun, whose owners decided at the end of World War I to seek a place among the country's premier newspapers with strong national and world reporting. The Sun's World War II initiative, writes Joseph Sterne, was surpassed only by papers in New York City and Chicago. They mentioned in their dispatches the names of more than 6,000 Marylanders in military service. The author spent forty-four years working for the Sun, starting as a police reporter, continuing as a foreign bureau chief, and culminating with twenty-five years as editorial page editor. He came to know first-hand many of the correspondents he writes about in this book, adding valuable historical perspective. The Sun stars were an outstanding group. Watson, who served on General John J. Pershing's staff in World War I and who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1945, was a long-time military correspondent honored at the end of his career with a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and by having the Pentagon pressroom named after him. Day also picked up a Pulitzer in 1949 and eventually became the paper's editor-in-chief. McCardell, who won a Purple Heart and was the most explicit of the Sun's correspondents, later served as the paper's assistant managing editor. Bradley, also awarded a Purple Heart, later pursued his career in the Defense Department and the Foreign Service, and is the only one of the Sun's wartime correspondents who is still alive. He has published his own memoir of his correspondent days. Sterne divides his book into twentyseven unfootnoted chapters, including two devoted to the pre-World War II era - with special attention to the paper's outspoken columnist H.L. Mencken - and one showcasing the paper's hard-hitting coverage of the internment of JapaneseAmericans. …
Have free times? Read at home with ernie pyle writer by Why? A best seller publication worldwide ... more Have free times? Read at home with ernie pyle writer by Why? A best seller publication worldwide with wonderful value and also content is combined with appealing words. Where? Merely right here, in this site you can review online. Want download? Of course offered, download them additionally right here. Available documents are as word, ppt, txt, kindle, pdf, rar, and also zip. Our goal is always to offer you an assortment of cost-free ebooks too as aid resolve your troubles. We have got a considerable collection of totally free of expense Book for people from every single stroll of life. We have got tried our finest to gather a sizable library of preferred cost-free as well as paid files. This is really going to save you time and your money in something should think about. If you're seeking then search around for online. Without a doubt there are several these available and a lot of them have the freedom. However no doubt you receive what you spend on. An alternate way to get ideas would be to check another at home with ernie pyle. GO TO THE TECHNICAL WRITING FOR AN EXPANDED TYPE OF THIS AT HOME WITH ERNIE PYLE, ALONG WITH A CORRECTLY FORMATTED VERSION OF THE INSTANCE MANUAL PAGE ABOVE.
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Mar 1, 2012
When black journalist Vincent "Roi" Ottley was assigned to cover the European theater i... more When black journalist Vincent "Roi" Ottley was assigned to cover the European theater in World War II, he provided a perspective shared by few other war correspondents. But what he really saw has taken more than sixty years to come to light. Already famous as the author of "New World A-Coming" in which he decried the hypocrisy of America fighting for freedom in Europe while denying it to blacks at home Ottley was sent to cover the experiences of African American soldiers that neither white journalists nor the American military felt obliged to report. But while his dispatches documented this assignment, his personal diary reveals a different war one that included mess hall brawls between Southern white soldiers and their black counterparts, the British public's ignorance toward their own black soldiers, and other subtle glimpses of wartime life that never made it into print. That journal remained buried in a collection of Ottley's papers at St. Bonaventure University until Mark Huddle discovered it in the school's archives. With this book, he offers us a new look at World War II as he brings a forgotten figure out of history's shadow. While Ottley may have had an agenda in his published articles of proving the worth of black soldiers, his diary is rich in personal reflections-from his fears while enduring a bombing raid in London to his true feelings about fellow reporters to his encounters with celebrities such as Ernest Hemingway and Edward R. Murrow. And at every turn Ottley kept a keen eye on race issues, revealing a highly political as well as entertaining writer while reflecting a growing awareness that the African American freedom movement was part of a larger international struggle by peoples of color against Western imperialism. Huddle's introduction frames Ottley's career and contributions, and his annotations throughout the book provide additional context to the reporter's experiences. Huddle also includes thirteen of Ottley's published dispatches to demonstrate the differences between his personal musings and his professional output. The publication of this lost diary restores the reputation of a trailblazing figure, showing that Roi Ottley was both a brilliant writer and one of America's keenest observers of race issues. It offers all readers interested in race relations or World War II a more nuanced picture of life during that conflict from a perspective rarely encountered."
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Dec 1, 2011
(ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Sign... more (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals. Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, and Natalia Rulyova, eds. New York: Routledge, 2009. 264 pp. $160 hbk. $43.95 pbk. Television & Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control. Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova. New York, NY: Routledge, 2010. 252 pp. $160 hbk. $39.95 pbk. Television, Power & the Public in Russia. Ellen Mickiewicz. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 220 pp. $90 hbk. $32 pbk. Television destroyed the Soviet Union. The blue screen, as it was nicknamed, could be watched in the privacy of one's apartment, with viewers making and discussing their own interpretations of what they saw and heard, away from the influence of the Communist Party and its activists. In order to draw the mass audience that party leaders wanted, television had to appeal to viewers, even to entertain them. While Westerners might have seen the Soviet entertainment level as relatively underdeveloped, its TV provided viewers with their escape from reality. Western scholars readily recognized the political messages embedded in the programs and assumed that they constituted powerful propaganda, without asking the viewers who watched the programs (because they couldn't) what they thought about them. If necessary, viewers watched news programs in part to know what the Communist Party and its leaders were thinking, but formed their own conclusions about what the news really meant, usually after discussing the programs with their neighbors. The longer the reality portrayed on television was so different from reality itself, the less the viewers believed in the communist system. Then, when communism first dissolved into glasnost, viewers found it difficult to know what to make of television because it was providing not only entertainment but also news and information without interpretation. When the Soviet Union finally collapsed, TV viewers and television itself had the opportunity to redefine themselves. Scholars called this a transition, but never defined very well what the destination of the transition was supposed to be. International monitors of press freedom expressed concern over the first decade of the new century as President (and later Prime Minister) Vladimir Putin limited mass media freedom in Russia, with the federal television channels increasingly coming under government control. That restricted the range of news, with Russian leaders assuming that they could thereby ensure that Russian citizens would absorb the preferred messages. At least a mild reversal of that direction resulted in 2010 after an airplane carrying many Polish societal leaders crashed near Katyn, in western Russia, forcing Russian authorities to confront publicly the Soviet murder of 20,000 members of the Polish elite there during World War ? because the Polish leaders were flying to a service to pay homage to that elite. These three books describe what Russian television (and to a lesser extent other media) has become in the last decade. The communist media system dissolved into a Wild East of television competition, with government, oligarchs, and independent entrepreneurs all competing for a piece of the pie. As the economic system that had supported the communist media collapsed, print media shrank to a shadow of their former selves, shoving television into an even more dominant media position. That system disappeared with the growing strength of Putin in the twenty-first century. Television remained the only medium with a significant nationwide reach, even if a large number of channels also competed at the local and regional levels. Television is dominant in Russia in a way it used to be in the United States. It provides a common source for news. The Kremlin holds shares in all six national TV stations, and owns three of them outright. It controls 60% of Russian newspapers, whose copies are relatively expensive for readers to buy. …
McDowell, W.H. The History of BBC Broadcasting in Scotland, 1923-1983. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Unive... more McDowell, W.H. The History of BBC Broadcasting in Scotland, 1923-1983. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992. 357 pp. $79.W.H. McDowell's intent when writing The History of BBC Broadcasting in Scotland, 1923-1983 was to create an institutional account of the BBC in Scotland. There is little published material on broadcasting in Scotland and, until this book, no standard work on the BBC in Scotland to provide a regional counterpart to BBC historian Asa Briggs' work on the history of the BBC United Kingdom broadcasting. As Briggs comments in the book's foreword, this book is a contribution to the history of Scotland as well as to the BBC.The book is the result of an extended and further-developed study of postwar Scottish broadcasting which had previously been submitted for McDowell's research degree at the University of Edinburgh. This broadcast history should encourage further research and writings by other broadcast historians, especially those who have directly participated in broadcasting. It also creates interesting reading for those who are familiar with the development of radio and television in the United States. In particular, the book lays down, in painstaking detail, the development and philosophy of public service broadcasting, which easily help create parallels to commercial broadcast development in the United States.McDowell creates three major themes in the text: growth, centralization, and eventual competition. The author describes in great detail a history of the creation of the Regional (Scottish) broadcast service, which some readers may find difficult to absorb. Indeed, because of the extent of the material, readers may find the material rather heavy going unless they are engaged in similar research.McDowell defends his emphasis on minute points by showing the importance of understanding the original policy-making philosophies as well as the decisions which were handed down to, or inherited , by subsequent policy-makers. The "Scottish" issues were wrestled with in every administration and broadcasting era. Some of these issues were dealing with defining what constituted "recognizably Scottish" programming, Scottish broadcast origins, and other points that would be regarded as essentially Scottish. He does a particularly good job in highlighting how Scottish concerns often conflicted with the philosophy developed by the BBC's first General Manager, John Reith, that the BBC should be an arbiter of public taste and a definer of standards. …
A qualitative examination was made of the black newspaper, "The Blade" in Parsons, Kangas, during... more A qualitative examination was made of the black newspaper, "The Blade" in Parsons, Kangas, during two six-week periods: September /4-October 29; 1892, the first available issues of the paper, appearing just prior to hational'electionsf and October 23-November 27, 1897, which included two yeeks before and four weeks after local elections. The intent was to explain the marked changes *
Roi Ottley's World War II: The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist. Mark A. Huddle, ... more Roi Ottley's World War II: The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist. Mark A. Huddle, ed. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2011. 200 pp. $29.95 hbk.While Nazi gunners dropped shells on African American soldiers on the Anzio beachhead in the first half of 1944, Ernie Pyle, after talking to black cartoonist Ollie Harrington of the Pittsburgh Courier, offered to write several columns about them. He did, about the blacks who kept the military supplied with food and ammunition, but he didn't mention any issues they had to face because of their race.That helps explain the importance of the small number of black correspondents who wrote about the half-million black service members for black newspapers. John Stevens profiled twenty-seven of these correspondents in a pioneering study. Stevens chose not to include blacks who wrote for white publications. That meant leaving out Roi Ottley, even though Ottley became the first black to write for a major American newspaper, and who thus could communicate black concerns to a white public.Roi Ottley's World War II provides an introduction to the life of Vincent "Roi" Ottley. The book presents his incomplete workbook of diary entries and letter and article drafts, June-December 1944, and offers thirteen selected articles from his journalistic work-ten from the liberal newspaper PM, 1942-1946. Mark Huddle, now an assistant professor of history at Georgia College, discovered this material in the St. Bonaventure University Archives when he was on the faculty at St. Bonaventure, where Ottley (1906-1960) spent the first two years of his college career on a track scholarship and where he began to develop as a writer before transferring to Michigan.Ottley became an important figure in the cultural life of Harlem in the 1930s, where he was a reporter, columnist, and editor for the Amsterdam News. Forced from the paper for his political views, he joined the Harlem branch of the Federal Writers' Project, which led to him supervising a team that included Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright. Among his friends he counted Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Fats Waller, and W. C. Handy Jr.When the United States entered World War II, Ottley was swept up in the debate over issues and strategies that African Americans should employ to advance their cause while serving their country. Ottley contributed New World A-Coming, published in 1943, in which he described for a white audience what it was like to be an African American and how African Americans viewed their past and future. He criticized violence against black soldiers in the South, which was detrimental to the US cause. The book appeared in the middle of a summer when race riots broke out in Los Angeles, Harlem, Detroit, Mobile, and elsewhere. …
This article examines changes in Slovak media legislation during the accession period leading up ... more This article examines changes in Slovak media legislation during the accession period leading up to the joining of the European Union in May 2004. After providing a summary of the evolution of EU broadcasting policies, the authors first review the politicized nature of media development in Slovakia during the first decade of the post-communist experience, most importantly the private ownership of print media and a dual system of private and public broadcast media. The legacy of the restricted democracy that characterized the first five years of the independence of Slovakia was a commitment by the opposition at that time to civil society. The Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting, with EU guidance, prepared three laws, adopted by the Slovak parliament in 2000-01, which created the current legal media framework. Slovakia not only adopted the legislation required for EU accession, but at the same time it also advanced media regulation in other areas. The Slovak experience sugge...
* Combat Correspondents: The Baltimore Sun in World War II. Joseph R.L. Sterne. Baltimore, MD: Th... more * Combat Correspondents: The Baltimore Sun in World War II. Joseph R.L. Sterne. Baltimore, MD: The Maryland Historical Society, 2009. 281 pp. $34 pbk. When historians and World War ? history buffs think about World War II correspondents, names such as Ernie PyIe, Edward R. Murrow, Hal Boyle, Richard Tregaskis, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, and others come up - journalists and writers who reported for national news organizations and publications. They don't think of names such as Mark Watson, Lee McCardell, Price Day, and Holbrook Bradley. These four and many others reported for this country's metropolitan and regional newspapers, paying special attention to soldiers, sailors, and civilians from their newspaper's readership areas while also often providing standard coverage of the fighting. They did not necessarily spend the duration of the war at the front, dependent as they were on the financial situation of their papers, as well as the plans and ideas of their editors and publishers. These four reporters were the stars among the ten sent abroad by the Baltimore Sun, whose owners decided at the end of World War I to seek a place among the country's premier newspapers with strong national and world reporting. The Sun's World War II initiative, writes Joseph Sterne, was surpassed only by papers in New York City and Chicago. They mentioned in their dispatches the names of more than 6,000 Marylanders in military service. The author spent forty-four years working for the Sun, starting as a police reporter, continuing as a foreign bureau chief, and culminating with twenty-five years as editorial page editor. He came to know first-hand many of the correspondents he writes about in this book, adding valuable historical perspective. The Sun stars were an outstanding group. Watson, who served on General John J. Pershing's staff in World War I and who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1945, was a long-time military correspondent honored at the end of his career with a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and by having the Pentagon pressroom named after him. Day also picked up a Pulitzer in 1949 and eventually became the paper's editor-in-chief. McCardell, who won a Purple Heart and was the most explicit of the Sun's correspondents, later served as the paper's assistant managing editor. Bradley, also awarded a Purple Heart, later pursued his career in the Defense Department and the Foreign Service, and is the only one of the Sun's wartime correspondents who is still alive. He has published his own memoir of his correspondent days. Sterne divides his book into twentyseven unfootnoted chapters, including two devoted to the pre-World War II era - with special attention to the paper's outspoken columnist H.L. Mencken - and one showcasing the paper's hard-hitting coverage of the internment of JapaneseAmericans. …
Have free times? Read at home with ernie pyle writer by Why? A best seller publication worldwide ... more Have free times? Read at home with ernie pyle writer by Why? A best seller publication worldwide with wonderful value and also content is combined with appealing words. Where? Merely right here, in this site you can review online. Want download? Of course offered, download them additionally right here. Available documents are as word, ppt, txt, kindle, pdf, rar, and also zip. Our goal is always to offer you an assortment of cost-free ebooks too as aid resolve your troubles. We have got a considerable collection of totally free of expense Book for people from every single stroll of life. We have got tried our finest to gather a sizable library of preferred cost-free as well as paid files. This is really going to save you time and your money in something should think about. If you're seeking then search around for online. Without a doubt there are several these available and a lot of them have the freedom. However no doubt you receive what you spend on. An alternate way to get ideas would be to check another at home with ernie pyle. GO TO THE TECHNICAL WRITING FOR AN EXPANDED TYPE OF THIS AT HOME WITH ERNIE PYLE, ALONG WITH A CORRECTLY FORMATTED VERSION OF THE INSTANCE MANUAL PAGE ABOVE.
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Mar 1, 2012
When black journalist Vincent "Roi" Ottley was assigned to cover the European theater i... more When black journalist Vincent "Roi" Ottley was assigned to cover the European theater in World War II, he provided a perspective shared by few other war correspondents. But what he really saw has taken more than sixty years to come to light. Already famous as the author of "New World A-Coming" in which he decried the hypocrisy of America fighting for freedom in Europe while denying it to blacks at home Ottley was sent to cover the experiences of African American soldiers that neither white journalists nor the American military felt obliged to report. But while his dispatches documented this assignment, his personal diary reveals a different war one that included mess hall brawls between Southern white soldiers and their black counterparts, the British public's ignorance toward their own black soldiers, and other subtle glimpses of wartime life that never made it into print. That journal remained buried in a collection of Ottley's papers at St. Bonaventure University until Mark Huddle discovered it in the school's archives. With this book, he offers us a new look at World War II as he brings a forgotten figure out of history's shadow. While Ottley may have had an agenda in his published articles of proving the worth of black soldiers, his diary is rich in personal reflections-from his fears while enduring a bombing raid in London to his true feelings about fellow reporters to his encounters with celebrities such as Ernest Hemingway and Edward R. Murrow. And at every turn Ottley kept a keen eye on race issues, revealing a highly political as well as entertaining writer while reflecting a growing awareness that the African American freedom movement was part of a larger international struggle by peoples of color against Western imperialism. Huddle's introduction frames Ottley's career and contributions, and his annotations throughout the book provide additional context to the reporter's experiences. Huddle also includes thirteen of Ottley's published dispatches to demonstrate the differences between his personal musings and his professional output. The publication of this lost diary restores the reputation of a trailblazing figure, showing that Roi Ottley was both a brilliant writer and one of America's keenest observers of race issues. It offers all readers interested in race relations or World War II a more nuanced picture of life during that conflict from a perspective rarely encountered."
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Dec 1, 2011
(ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Sign... more (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals. Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, and Natalia Rulyova, eds. New York: Routledge, 2009. 264 pp. $160 hbk. $43.95 pbk. Television & Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control. Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Rulyova. New York, NY: Routledge, 2010. 252 pp. $160 hbk. $39.95 pbk. Television, Power & the Public in Russia. Ellen Mickiewicz. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 220 pp. $90 hbk. $32 pbk. Television destroyed the Soviet Union. The blue screen, as it was nicknamed, could be watched in the privacy of one's apartment, with viewers making and discussing their own interpretations of what they saw and heard, away from the influence of the Communist Party and its activists. In order to draw the mass audience that party leaders wanted, television had to appeal to viewers, even to entertain them. While Westerners might have seen the Soviet entertainment level as relatively underdeveloped, its TV provided viewers with their escape from reality. Western scholars readily recognized the political messages embedded in the programs and assumed that they constituted powerful propaganda, without asking the viewers who watched the programs (because they couldn't) what they thought about them. If necessary, viewers watched news programs in part to know what the Communist Party and its leaders were thinking, but formed their own conclusions about what the news really meant, usually after discussing the programs with their neighbors. The longer the reality portrayed on television was so different from reality itself, the less the viewers believed in the communist system. Then, when communism first dissolved into glasnost, viewers found it difficult to know what to make of television because it was providing not only entertainment but also news and information without interpretation. When the Soviet Union finally collapsed, TV viewers and television itself had the opportunity to redefine themselves. Scholars called this a transition, but never defined very well what the destination of the transition was supposed to be. International monitors of press freedom expressed concern over the first decade of the new century as President (and later Prime Minister) Vladimir Putin limited mass media freedom in Russia, with the federal television channels increasingly coming under government control. That restricted the range of news, with Russian leaders assuming that they could thereby ensure that Russian citizens would absorb the preferred messages. At least a mild reversal of that direction resulted in 2010 after an airplane carrying many Polish societal leaders crashed near Katyn, in western Russia, forcing Russian authorities to confront publicly the Soviet murder of 20,000 members of the Polish elite there during World War ? because the Polish leaders were flying to a service to pay homage to that elite. These three books describe what Russian television (and to a lesser extent other media) has become in the last decade. The communist media system dissolved into a Wild East of television competition, with government, oligarchs, and independent entrepreneurs all competing for a piece of the pie. As the economic system that had supported the communist media collapsed, print media shrank to a shadow of their former selves, shoving television into an even more dominant media position. That system disappeared with the growing strength of Putin in the twenty-first century. Television remained the only medium with a significant nationwide reach, even if a large number of channels also competed at the local and regional levels. Television is dominant in Russia in a way it used to be in the United States. It provides a common source for news. The Kremlin holds shares in all six national TV stations, and owns three of them outright. It controls 60% of Russian newspapers, whose copies are relatively expensive for readers to buy. …
McDowell, W.H. The History of BBC Broadcasting in Scotland, 1923-1983. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Unive... more McDowell, W.H. The History of BBC Broadcasting in Scotland, 1923-1983. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992. 357 pp. $79.W.H. McDowell's intent when writing The History of BBC Broadcasting in Scotland, 1923-1983 was to create an institutional account of the BBC in Scotland. There is little published material on broadcasting in Scotland and, until this book, no standard work on the BBC in Scotland to provide a regional counterpart to BBC historian Asa Briggs' work on the history of the BBC United Kingdom broadcasting. As Briggs comments in the book's foreword, this book is a contribution to the history of Scotland as well as to the BBC.The book is the result of an extended and further-developed study of postwar Scottish broadcasting which had previously been submitted for McDowell's research degree at the University of Edinburgh. This broadcast history should encourage further research and writings by other broadcast historians, especially those who have directly participated in broadcasting. It also creates interesting reading for those who are familiar with the development of radio and television in the United States. In particular, the book lays down, in painstaking detail, the development and philosophy of public service broadcasting, which easily help create parallels to commercial broadcast development in the United States.McDowell creates three major themes in the text: growth, centralization, and eventual competition. The author describes in great detail a history of the creation of the Regional (Scottish) broadcast service, which some readers may find difficult to absorb. Indeed, because of the extent of the material, readers may find the material rather heavy going unless they are engaged in similar research.McDowell defends his emphasis on minute points by showing the importance of understanding the original policy-making philosophies as well as the decisions which were handed down to, or inherited , by subsequent policy-makers. The "Scottish" issues were wrestled with in every administration and broadcasting era. Some of these issues were dealing with defining what constituted "recognizably Scottish" programming, Scottish broadcast origins, and other points that would be regarded as essentially Scottish. He does a particularly good job in highlighting how Scottish concerns often conflicted with the philosophy developed by the BBC's first General Manager, John Reith, that the BBC should be an arbiter of public taste and a definer of standards. …
A qualitative examination was made of the black newspaper, "The Blade" in Parsons, Kangas, during... more A qualitative examination was made of the black newspaper, "The Blade" in Parsons, Kangas, during two six-week periods: September /4-October 29; 1892, the first available issues of the paper, appearing just prior to hational'electionsf and October 23-November 27, 1897, which included two yeeks before and four weeks after local elections. The intent was to explain the marked changes *
Roi Ottley's World War II: The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist. Mark A. Huddle, ... more Roi Ottley's World War II: The Lost Diary of an African American Journalist. Mark A. Huddle, ed. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2011. 200 pp. $29.95 hbk.While Nazi gunners dropped shells on African American soldiers on the Anzio beachhead in the first half of 1944, Ernie Pyle, after talking to black cartoonist Ollie Harrington of the Pittsburgh Courier, offered to write several columns about them. He did, about the blacks who kept the military supplied with food and ammunition, but he didn't mention any issues they had to face because of their race.That helps explain the importance of the small number of black correspondents who wrote about the half-million black service members for black newspapers. John Stevens profiled twenty-seven of these correspondents in a pioneering study. Stevens chose not to include blacks who wrote for white publications. That meant leaving out Roi Ottley, even though Ottley became the first black to write for a major American newspaper, and who thus could communicate black concerns to a white public.Roi Ottley's World War II provides an introduction to the life of Vincent "Roi" Ottley. The book presents his incomplete workbook of diary entries and letter and article drafts, June-December 1944, and offers thirteen selected articles from his journalistic work-ten from the liberal newspaper PM, 1942-1946. Mark Huddle, now an assistant professor of history at Georgia College, discovered this material in the St. Bonaventure University Archives when he was on the faculty at St. Bonaventure, where Ottley (1906-1960) spent the first two years of his college career on a track scholarship and where he began to develop as a writer before transferring to Michigan.Ottley became an important figure in the cultural life of Harlem in the 1930s, where he was a reporter, columnist, and editor for the Amsterdam News. Forced from the paper for his political views, he joined the Harlem branch of the Federal Writers' Project, which led to him supervising a team that included Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright. Among his friends he counted Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Fats Waller, and W. C. Handy Jr.When the United States entered World War II, Ottley was swept up in the debate over issues and strategies that African Americans should employ to advance their cause while serving their country. Ottley contributed New World A-Coming, published in 1943, in which he described for a white audience what it was like to be an African American and how African Americans viewed their past and future. He criticized violence against black soldiers in the South, which was detrimental to the US cause. The book appeared in the middle of a summer when race riots broke out in Los Angeles, Harlem, Detroit, Mobile, and elsewhere. …
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