Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy Paperback - 1997
by James Fallows
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.
First line
Why, exactly, has the media establishment become so unpopular with so many people?
From the rear cover
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 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 Cokie Roberts--Fallows shows why the media have not only lost our respect but alienated us from our public life.
"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
From the jacket flap
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 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 Cokie Roberts--Fallows shows why the media have not only lost our respect but alienated us from our public life.
"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
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- Title Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy
- Author James Fallows
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Vintage Book
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date January 14, 1997
- ISBN 9780679758563 / 0679758569
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.08 x 5.32 x 0.74 in (20.52 x 13.51 x 1.88 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Press and politics - United States, Journalism - United States - Objectivity
- Dewey Decimal Code 302.23
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Citations
- New York Times, 03/16/1997, Page 32
- Publishers Weekly, 12/30/1996, Page 0
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