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Summary: Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the ensuing firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: A television newscaster's mental breakdown turns him into a celebrity when the network tries to profit from his illness.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NET

Stelter, Brian

Summary: Featuring unbelievable behind-the-scenes details, the author, using his signature investigative prowess, exposes Fox News' blatant attempts to manipulate the truth, mislead the public and influence our elections, showing the insidious ways the media is damaging our democracy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers, Atria 2023

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Stelter, Brian

Summary: President Donald Trump watches over six hours of Fox News a day, a habit his staff refers to as 'executive time.' In January 2020, when Fox News began to downplay COVID-19, the President was quick to agree. In March, as the deadly virus spiraled out of control, Sean Hannity mocked "coronavirus hysteria." Stelter tells how Trump has exploited the leadership vacuum at the top to effectively seize...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 STE

Summary: Go behind-the-scenes of a live sketch comedy show. Watch as Jack comes back to GE; Liz gets a visit from an adoption agency caseworker; Liz sits next to Oprah on her flight from Chicago to New York; Tracy and Jenna conduct a 'social experiment;' Jack hooks up with Liz's psycho ex-roommate; Liz thinks she has found the perfect mate; Don Geiss wakes from his coma; Jack falls in love with his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THI

Summary: Seven-part limited series about Roger Ailes, the founder of Fox News. It focuses on the past decade which Ailes arguably became the Republican Party's de facto leader, and the sexual harassment accusations that brought his career to an end.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LOU

Wolff, Michael

Summary: "For almost three decades, Fox News has not only made political careers (see: President Donald J. Trump) but also fundamentally altered the political landscape of the United States. It is a truism: as Fox goes, so goes the nation--into further divisiveness and awash in fake news, a gleefully polarizing company. But just as Fox has pushed America apart, now it too is coming apart. As is the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 WOL

Summary: The Newsroom takes a behind-the-scenes look at a high-rated cable-news program at the fictional ACN Network, focusing on the on and off camera lives of its acerbic anchor, a new executive producer, and their newsroom staff.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NEW

Summary: In a searing parody of American television and racial attitudes a young African American network executive, under pressure from his white boss, creates a minstrel show, hoping that it will fail and that he will be released from his network contract -- but the TV show becomes both a hit and the subject of much controversy.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAM

Napoli, Lisa.

Summary: The wild inside story of the birth of CNN and dawn of the age of 24-hour news. How did we get from an age of dignified nightly news broadcasts on three national networks to the age of 24-hour channels and constantly breaking news? The answer-thanks to Ted Turner and an oddball cast of cable television visionaries, big league rejects, and nonunion newbies-can be found in the basement of an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.43 NAP

Summary: Highlights from the Colbert Report television show on Comedy Central, including segments from: The word: truthiness ; Better know a district ; Green screen challenge ; Stephen Jr. - flight of a patriot ; Papa Bear ; Cooking with feminists ; Meta-free-phor-all and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BES

Sherman, Gabriel

Summary: An inside account of Fox News offers insight into its operations and influence, covering the original launch of the cable news network by Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch and the ways in which Fox has become a dominant force in American politics.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.43 SHE

Kaskowitz, Sheryl

Summary: "In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest-Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024

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Butler, Bethonie

Summary: "The first of its kind, this illustrated gift book, written by veteran Washington Post TV reporter Bethonie Butler, is a comprehensive look at the rich history of groundbreaking--and often underappreciated--television shows with leading Black characters from the last fifty years"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog and Leventhal 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 BUT

Thiel, Kristin

Summary: With the creation of the Cable News Network (CNN) in 1980, television news changed forever. Today, television news shapes viewers' opinions, politics, and journalism as a whole. Filled with attention-grabbing photographs, political cartoons, and in-depth sidebars, this book introduces readers to the story of what came before in-the-moment reporting, how the twenty-four-hour news cycle came...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.1 THI

Fager, Jeffrey

Summary: "From its almost accidental birth in 1968, 60 Minutes has set the standard for broadcast journalism, joining us in our living rooms each Sunday night to surprise us about the world. The show has profiled every major leader, artist, and movement of the past five decades, perfecting the newsmaking interview and inventing the groundbreaking TV exposé. From legendary sit-downs with Richard Nixon in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070 FAG

Berman, Geoffrey

Summary: "The gripping and explosive memoir of serving as US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in the face of the Justice Department's attempts to protect Trump's friends and punish his enemies"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERMAN, GEOFFREY BER

Summary: Danger, disillusionment, and betrayal reach an all-time high in the suspense-laced fifth season of The Americans. KGB agents Philip and Elizabeth Jennings' unwavering dedication to their work comes at even more of a personal cost than before. And as Paige is drawn deeper into the reality of her parents' secret job, she realizes she will never have a normal life. Meanwhile, as Cold War tensions...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD AME

Summary: Join Mary and the rest of the crew from the WJM-TV newsroom for another season of the classic sitcom. This time around Mary deals with more adventures, both in the newsroom and with her romantic life. Season 5 features: Will Mary Richards Go to Jail?, The Outsider; Not a Christmas Story, An Affair to Forget, What Are Friends For?, The System, Phyllis Whips Inflation, The Shame of the Cities,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAR

Summary: The complete seventh and final season of the award-winning comedy. As Jack schemes to take control of KableTown or sink the whole company trying, Liz strives to balance her uncharacteristically blissful personal life with the constant chaos of her career. Even with Kenneth Parcell, life-long NBC devotee, around to tend to TGS' lovable misfit stars Tracy Jordan and Jenna Maroney, mayhem ensues...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THI

Meacham, Jon

Summary: Jon Meacham chronicles the life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln and explores why and how Lincoln confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery in order to expand the possibilities of America. This book tells the story of Lincoln from his birth on the Kentucky frontier in 1809 to his leadership during the Civil War to his tragic assassination at Ford's Theater on...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LIN

Summary: Join Mary and the rest of the crew from the WJM-TV newsroom for another season of the classic sitcom. This time around Mary deals with more adventures, both in the newsroom and with her romantic life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAR

Brands, H. W.

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Summary: "From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 BRA

Steel, Danielle

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Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STE

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