Examines how the news grew in importance as the ability to transmit live feeds developed - and how worldwide newsrooms emulate the U.S. market. Includes insight on the McCarthy hearings, the election and death of JFK, race riots, and more.
Examines how the news is more impactful and can be used to manipulate when people see moving images. Touches on the Vietnam war, political assassinations and attempts, protests, the unseating of Richard Nixon, and more.
An examination of how documentaries struggled, then flourished once filming techniques were perfected, but eventually declined thanks to docudramas and a yet-to-be-named new genre known as reality television.