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Covering the Body

Covering the Body

by Barbie Zelizer

1992AssassinationJournalismHistoryKennedy, john f. (john fitzgerald), 1917-1963, assassinationJournalism, united states
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First lines

Common sense is quite wrong in thinking that the past is fixed, immutable, invariable, as against the ever-changing flux of the present.

About this book

Covering the Body (the title refers to the charge given journalists to follow a president) is a powerful reassessment of the media's role in shaping our collective memory of the assassination--at the same time as it used the assassination coverage to legitimize its own role as official interpreter of American reality. Of the more than fifty reporters covering Kennedy in Dallas, no one actually saw the assassination. And faced with a monumentally important story that was continuously breaking, most journalists had no time to verify leads or substantiate reports. Rather, they took discrete moments of their stories and turned them into one coherent narrative, blurring what was and was not "professional" about their coverage.

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AssassinationJournalismHistoryKennedy, john f. (john fitzgerald), 1917-1963, assassinationJournalism, united states
First published 1992

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Setting

United States20th century

Author

Barbie Zelizer

First published

1992

Pages

307

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

2

Language

English

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

ISBN

9780226979717

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