Publication: Orwell Meets Nixon: When and Why ‘The Press’ Became ‘The Media’
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2005
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Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
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Nolan, Martin F. "Orwell Meets Nixon: When and Why ‘The Press’ Became ‘The Media.’" Shorenstein Center Working Paper Series 2005.2, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2005.
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A paper by Martin F. Nolan, fall 2004 fellow, explores President Nixon’s antagonistic relationship with the press. He argues that Nixon sought to disarm his critics by changing “the press,” a Constitutionally protected form of expression, into “the media,” a pejorative – and succeeded.