Abstract
For nearly two months during the spring of 1954, the American people witnessed a true television spectacular--the United States Army versus a United States Senator, the Army-McCarthy Hearings. It provided the first lengthy exposure of the Wisconsin Senator to the public via television, and it is not unusual, in reading either about these Hearings or about the career of Senator McCarthy, to find a contemporary history to suggest something similar to Malone and Rauch's "McCarthy's exposure of himself on television led to his downfall." Often, the reader is left to himself to decide why it was that these Hearings resulted in this purported collapse of McCarthy's career. It would not be unusual for the reader to conclude that that which was learned or gleaned from testimony at the Hearings was that which did him in. In short, this writer would contend that most people would argue that the content of the Hearings was the factor that led to McCarthy's political downfall.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
4
Issue
1
First Page
3
Last Page
16
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Sayer, James Edward
(1974)
"Television and the Army-McCarthy Hearing: A McLuhanistic Approach,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 4:
No.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol4/iss1/4
Copyright
©1974 Iowa Communication Association
