Meet the Press: Difference between revisions

[[File:Meet the Press with Tim Russert Logo 2005.png|thumb|Logo used since 2005]]

[[File:meetthepress110975.jpg|right|thumb|''Meet the Press'' set, November 1975. On this broadcast, a sitting American president ([[Gerald Ford]]) was, for the first time, a guest on a live television network news program.]]

''Meet the Press'' began on [[radio]] on the [[Mutual Broadcasting System]] in 1945 as ''American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press'',<ref>{{cite web|title=60 Years Ago in News History: America Meets the Press|url=http://www.newseum.org/news/news.aspx?item=jn_MTP071114&style=f|publisher=[[Newseum]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081117170923/http://www.newseum.org/news/news.aspx?item=jn_MTP071114&style=f |archive-date=November 17, 2008 }}</ref> a program to promote ''[[The American Mercury]]'', a magazine that [[Lawrence Spivak]] purchased in 1935.<ref name="NYT Sale 1935">{{cite news |date=January 23, 1935 |title=American Mercury Sold to L. E. Spivak |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C00E4D8103FE53ABC4B51DFB766838E629EDE&legacy=true |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2017-08-02 }}</ref> Before the program aired, Spivak had asked journalist [[Martha Rountree]], who had worked in radio and had been employed by Spivak as a roving editor for the magazine, to critique plans for a new radio show. As a result, Rountree created a new radio program that she called ''The American Mercury'', on October 5, 1945.<ref name="shemadeit">{{cite web|title=Martha Rountree: Radio/Television Producer, Writer, Host |url=http://www.shemadeit.org/meet/biography.aspx?m=150 |work=shemadeit.org |publisher=[[The Paley Center for Media|Paley Center for Media]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032421/http://www.shemadeit.org/meet/biography.aspx?m=150 |archive-date=2016-03-04 }}</ref>