American Decades
"Chicago: A Post-Mortem"
Magazine article
By: Frank Reuven
Date: December 14, 1968
Source: Reuven, Frank. "Chicago: A Post-Mortem." TV Guide, December 14, 1968, 106–115.
About the Author: Frank Reuven (1920–) was born in Montreal, Quebec. After earning a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University in 1947, he worked for three years as a newspaper writer before joining the NBC television network. He had a long career with NBC News, first as a writer and editor and then as a producer of news programs, including the Huntley-Brinkley Report. He was president of the NBC News Division from 1968–1973 and again in 1982–1984.
Introduction
Every four years the nation's political parties hold conventions to nominate presidential and vice presidential candidates. These conventions typically serve to introduce and showcase the parties' candidates on national television. But...
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1960's Media Primary Sources
- "Television and the Public Interest"
- "And Here's Johnny …"
- "From Clown to Hero"
- "Television and the Feminine Mystique"
- "Winds of Change for Newspapers"
- "A Dialogue—Marshall McLuhan and Gerald Emanuel Stearn"
- "We Are Mired in Stalemate"
- "Chicago: A Post-Mortem"
- The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
- "TV: An Awesome Event"
- Spiro Agnew and the Liberal Media
- "Future of Non-commercial TV"
- "The First Debate over Presidential Debates"
- Tell Me a Story
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
