Charles L. Ponce de Leon

Charles L. Ponce de Leon is Professor of History and American Studies at California State University, Long Beach. A specialist in US Cultural and Intellectual History, he is currently at work on a history of television news in the US.

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The Most Trusted Man in America

February 1, 2013 · Online Articles

Walter Cronkite was at the center of a fascinating moment in the history of American mass media, and the television news that he came to embody was fleeting and highly unusual—an attempt to produce serious journalism in a medium associated with escapism. {…}

By Charles L. Ponce de Leon