Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly & the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism
Journalism History › Vol. 35 Nbr. 3, October 2009
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Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer was born in New York City; raised in Providence, Rhode Island; and overcame his father's untimely death, as well as the challenges of dyslexia, color blindness, and stuttering, to become a radio broadcaster. [...] it may be easy for a reader to momentarily forget that this is Friendly's biography, not Murrow's, which is evidence, perhaps, of how inexorably connected the two men are and how important and defining the relationship was to Friendly's career. [...] writes Engelman, "[t]he essence of Friendlyvision was the application of Lippmann's ideas to television."
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Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly & the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism
Engelman, Ralph. Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly & The Rise and Fall of Television Journalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. 424 pp. $34.50.
Fred W. Friendly made headlines in February 1966 when he abruptly and dramatically resigned as pr...See the full content of this document
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