Investigated Reporting: Muckrakers, Regulators, and the Struggle over Television Documentary

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments I am beholden to Chuck Kleinhans, Manjunath Pendakur, Robert Entman, Michael Curtin, and especially Rick Maxwell, for their comments on drafts of this work and encouragement of my research. I am also indebted for their valuable advice to Nick Lawrence, Benjamin I. Page, and David Hesmondhalgh. I am grateful as well to those who offered research assistance and advice, including Charles Puckette and Emilio Castilla. Many librarians and archivists helped me to navigate their troves, including the staffs at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin ); the Special Collections Division of the University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) and Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri); the Broadcast Pioneers Library (College Park, Maryland); the Montgomery County Community College Library (Rockville, Maryland); the National Archives and Records Administration (Washington, D.C., and College Park, Maryland); the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.); the Billy Rose Theater Collection at Lincoln Center Archives (New York, New York); the Museum of Television and Radio (New York, New York); the Columbia University Oral History Collection (New York, New York); the Special Collections Division of the Rutgers University Libraries (New Brunswick, New Jersey); the California State University–Sacramento Archives (Sacramento, California); the UCLA Film and Television Study Center (Los Angeles, California); and the Stanford University Libraries (Palo Alto, California.) Grants from Northwestern University and Santa Clara University helped to support my work. I am grateful to Stanford University, where an enlightened policy offering domestic partner benefits allowed me to use the library. I would not have been able to write this work otherwise. My colleagues in the Department of Communication at Santa Clara University encouraged my work and offered a congenial professional home. Students in my 2001 senior thesis class on investigative reporting helped advance my thinking about media response to muckraking on television. 00.i-xii.Raph.indd฀฀฀7 6/23/05฀฀฀8:43:41฀AM Friends and family hosted me on research trips and sustained me when I lagged. My thanks to Ann Wiener, Gregg Houston, Monique Houston, Jenifer Getz, Tim Raphael, Erin and Heather Findlay, Alice Hill, Sharon Achinstein, Merle Ann Siegelman, Ellen Noonan, Sam Sifton, Linda Singer and Joe Sternlieb , and the staff and board of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation. Others enriched my intellectual and social life in Menlo Park, California, where I wrote this work, including Amy Gerstein and Richard Heintze, Richard Leider and Katherine Murphy, Laura Stokes and Ciara Cox, Kelly and Gideon Clark, Bill Rowe, Ben Trautman and Sarah Kuehl, Brad Stam and Jack Millam. I thank Kerry Callahan at the University of Illinois Press for shepherding this project, John Nerone and Robert McChesney for including it in this book series, and the anonymous reviewers of the manuscript for their insights into how it could be improved. Thanks also to Ann Youmans for copyediting the book and to Katherine Jensen for indexing it. I am most grateful to my wife, Betty Achinstein, for supporting me through the writing process, and to my son Adin for diverting me from it. This book is for them. viii acknowledgments 00.i-xii.Raph.indd฀฀฀8 6/23/05฀฀฀8:43:41฀AM ...