Covering the body
the Kennedy assassination, the media, and the shaping of collective memory
by Barbie Zelizer
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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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Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory
October 1, 1993, University Of Chicago Press
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Covering the body: the Kennedy assassination, the media, and the shaping of collective memory
1992, University of Chicago Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-290) and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D)--Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania, 1990.
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"Common sense is quite wrong in thinking that the past is fixed, immutable, invariable, as against the ever-changing flux of the present."
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