Battle of Bosworth Field and end the fight. Seeing the King's knights separated from his army, the Stanleys intervened; Sir William led his men to Henry's aid, surrounding and killing Richard. After the battle Henry was crowned king below an oak tree in nearby Stoke Golding, now a residential garden. Henry hired chroniclers to portray his reign favourably; the Battle of Bosworth was popularised to represent the Tudor dynasty as the start of a new age. From the 15th to the 18th centuries the battle was glamorised as a victory of good over evil. The climax of William Shakespeare's play "Richard III" provides a
Richard S. Salant claiming a "chilling effect" on broadcast journalism that would result from compliance. Among Salant's other concerns during his tenure with CBS News were, a) his concern that television news was becoming primarily an entertainment vehicle, b) the pressure that he felt from the White House via CBS president, William S. Paley, to fire Daniel Schorr for his reporting that reflected poorly on the administration of Richard Nixon. In his book, "Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism: The Memoirs of Richard S Salant", he cited Stanton's assessment upon his retirement that CBS had become so large