Abstract
In 1960 a CBS news team went to Nashville to make a documentary, “Anatomy of a Demonstration,” and—in fact—touched off a racial demonstration by its very presence, according to Gov. Buford Ellington. The historical evidence is less clear but, apparently, there was an agreement by black leaders to allow only CBS to film training sessions for demonstrators—training that included simulations of violence. News, in a sense, was created, even if there is no hard evidence of the network unwittingly instigating a larger racial incident.
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