Author: Joseph W. Grant
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1609173465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
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The final book in the groundbreaking Voices from the Underground series, Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off!, is the inspiring, frenetic, funny, sad, always-cash-starved story of Joe Grant, founder and publisher of Prisoners’ Digest International, the most important prisoners’ rights underground newspaper of the Vietnam era. From Grant’s military days in pre-Revolutionary Cuba during the Korean War, to his time as publisher of a pro-union newspaper in Cedar Rapids and his eventual imprisonment in Leavenworth, Kansas, Grant’s personal history is a testament to the power of courage under duress. One of the more notorious federal penitentiaries in the nation, Leavenworth inspired Grant to found PDI in an effort to bring hope to prisoners and their families nationwide.
Author: Colleen Murrell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317906985
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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This book reveals that 'fixers'—local experts on whom foreign correspondents rely—play a much more significant role in international television newsgathering than has been documented or understood. Murrell explores the frames though which international reporting has traditionally been analysed and then shows that fixers, who have largely been dismissed by scholars as 'logistical aides', are in fact central to the day-to-day decision-making that takes place on-the-road. Murrell looks at why and how fixers are selected and what their significance is to foreign correspondence. She asks if fixers help introduce a local perspective into the international news agenda, or if fixers are simply ‘People Like Us’ (PLU). Also included are in-depth case studies of correspondents in Iraq and Indonesia.
Author: Ken Wachsberger
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1609172205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 741
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This enlightening book offers a collection of histories of underground papers from the Vietnam Era as written and told by key staff members of the time. Their stories (as well as those to be included in Part 2, forthcoming) represent a wide range of publications: counterculture, gay, lesbian, feminist, Puerto Rican, Native American, Black, socialist, Southern consciousness, prisoner's rights, New Age, rank-and-file, military, and more. The edition includes forewords by former Chicago Seed editor Abe Peck, radical attorney William M. Kunstler, and Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos, along with an introductory essay by Ken Wachsberger. Wachsberger notes that the underground press not only produce a few well-known papers but also was truly national and diverse in scope. His goal is to capture the essence of "the countercultural community." A fundamental resource for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of a dramatic era in U.S. history.
Author: James Monaco
Publisher: New York : Dell Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Author: Joseph W. Grant
Publisher: Voices from the Underground
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Stop the Presses! I Want to Get Off!, is the inspiring, frenetic, funny, sad, always-cash-starved story of Joe Grant, founder and publisher of Prisoners' Digest International, the most important prisoners' rights underground newspaper of the Vietnam era.
Author: Ken Wachsberger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 648
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V. 1 includes article on Fag Rag by Charley Shively, p. 199-212 and articles on Off our backs.
Author: Patt Morrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626400436
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Real News on real paper. Newspapers-- a free press-- were the cornerstone of the Founding Fathers' working model of democracy. And they remain so. Whether read at the kitchen table, in the boardroom, or on a laptop on the subway, newspapers-- as has been said of them for more than a half-century-- are "the first draft of history."Veteran journalist Patt Morrison proves it, and then some, in the pages of Don't Stop the Presses! Truth, Justice, and the American Newspaper.
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Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Author: Richard Pollak
Publisher:
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Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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