Breaking the news james fallows book
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Breaking the news james fallows book
Breaking The News - by James Fallows (Paperback)
About the Book
Drawing on his own experience as a National Book Award-winning journalist--and on the negative examples set by colleagues from George Will to Cokie Roberts--Fallows turns his sights on such phenomena as the media's relentless emphasis on political gamesmanship and the highly paid "buckraking" industry that turns reporters into speechmakers for the very interests that are supposed to cover.
Book Synopsis
Why do Americans mistrust the news media?
It may be because show 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.
These are just a few of the arguments that have made Breaking the Newsso controversial and so widely acclaimed. Drawing on his own experience as a National Book Award-winning journalist--and on the gaffes of