Breaking The News

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CURRENT AFFAIRS/MEDIA "Important and lucid- It moves smartly beyond the usual attacks on sensationalism and bias to the more profound problems in modern American journalism ... dead-on." -Newsweek Why do Americans mistrust the news média? It may be because shows like The McLaughlin Group reduce participating journalists to so many shouting heads. Or because, increasingly, the profession treats issues as complex as health-care reform and foreign policy as exercises in political gamesmanship. Or because muckrakers have given way to "buckrakers" who command huge fees lecturing to the very interest groups they are supposed to cover. These are just somé of the arguments that have made Breaking the News so controversial and so widely acclaimed. Drawing on his own experience as a National Book Award-winning journalist-and on the gaffes of colleagues from George Will to Cokié Roberts-Fallows shows why the média have not only lost our respect but alienated us from our public life. Moving... Tovább

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CURRENT AFFAIRS/MEDIA "Important and lucid- It moves smartly beyond the usual attacks on sensationalism and bias to the more profound problems in modern American journalism ... dead-on." -Newsweek Why do Americans mistrust the news média? It may be because shows like The McLaughlin Group reduce participating journalists to so many shouting heads. Or because, increasingly, the profession treats issues as complex as health-care reform and foreign policy as exercises in political gamesmanship. Or because muckrakers have given way to "buckrakers" who command huge fees lecturing to the very interest groups they are supposed to cover. These are just somé of the arguments that have made Breaking the News so controversial and so widely acclaimed. Drawing on his own experience as a National Book Award-winning journalist-and on the gaffes of colleagues from George Will to Cokié Roberts-Fallows shows why the média have not only lost our respect but alienated us from our public life. Moving from rigorous analysis to concrete proposals, the result is a devastating critique that is indispensable for anyone who makes the news-and anyone who reads or watches it. "Fallows is a true reformer____[His] points seem indisputable- An arresting analysis." -The New York Times "An unsparing indictment... ambitious, coherent, and convincing." -Boston Globe Vissza