media history

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• 9/6/2020
  

  "Elvis In The Box": The National Enquirer Issue that Made Today's Celebrity Culture

  by Michael Nelson

  As fans mourned Elvis at Graceland, the National Enquirer came to Memphis and got the coffin shot that sold 6.7 million copies.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/8/19
  

  The Battle Between NBC and CBS To Be the First To Film a Berlin Wall Tunnel Escape

  by Mike Conway

  In the summer of 1962, the two networks were at work on two separate, secret documentaries on tunnels being dug under the Berlin Wall.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/9/19
  

  The Chicago Defender, Legendary Black Newspaper, Prints Last Copy

  For generations of black Americans, The Defender, influential and tough, was a force: “You knew it didn’t happen if it wasn’t in The Defender.”