Television
If radio influenced America’s ability to make political and consumer choices, television accelerated the power of mass media over the national consciousness of the American people. A “quantum jump in journalistic and political power,” (Halberstam, 138) television transformed the way Americans understood the news.
As a print reporter, news broadcaster for Mutual Broadcasting System (MBS), Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), president of the Radio Correspondents' Association from 1947-1948, and chairman of the Political Conventions Committee of the Radio-Television Correspondents Association from 1952-1968, Bill Henry witnessed this shift of journalistic power from print to radio to television.