The boy from Lincoln -- Working for William Randolph Hearst in Omaha -- The founding of PM, a "newspaperman's ideal" -- Politics at PM: commies and 'good liberals" -- Covering World War II from home and abroad -- Getting fired by NBC and ABC, then hired by CBS -- The invention of CBS Views the press -- Jack O'Brian: Buffalo dock-walloper to Broadway drama critic -- Press criticism: from name-calling to nuance -- Jack O'Brian: championing decency, fighting soft-on-Communism liberals -- The obsession with subversives and Communist spies -- Jack O'Brian: traveling with the Conservative, Anti-Commie crowd -- The Hearts versus Hollenbeck -- Jack O'Brian: attacking the Communist broadcasting system -- Loyalty oaths, blacklists, and Joseph McCarthy -- The walking wounded -- The sermon in the suicide.