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Backstory: Inside the Business of News
by Auletta, Ken
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine-/Near Fine-
- ISBN 10
- 1594200009
- ISBN 13
- 9781594200007
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About This Item
NY: Penguin Press / Penguin Group, 2003. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's dust jacket design©. NON price-clipped dust jacket [$ 24.95], clean, crisp, colors bright, minor display wear. Complete number line at copyright page. Pages [296 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Brown boards, clean, gray cloth spine, bright gilt lettering. Remainder mark at bottom page edges; jacket front flap with corner crease. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine-/Near Fine-. Remainder.
Synopsis
It is said that journalism is a vital public service as well as a business, but more and more it is also said that big media consolidation; noisy, instant opinions on cable and the Internet; and political “bias” are making a mockery of such high-minded ideals. In Backstory , Ken Auletta explores why one of America’s most important industries is also among its most troubled. He travels from the proud New York Times , the last outpost of old-school family ownership, whose own personnel problems make headline news, into the depths of New York City’s brutal tabloid wars and out across the country to journalism’s new wave, chains like the Chicago Tribune ’s, where “synergy” is ever more a mantra. He probes the moral ambiguity of “media personalities”—journalists who become celebrities themselves, padding their incomes by schmoozing with Imus and rounding the lucrative corporate lecture circuit. He reckons with the legacy of journalism’s past and the different prospects for its future, from fallen stars of new media such as Inside.com to the rising star of cable news, Roger Ailes’s Fox News. The product of more than ten years covering the news media for The New Yorker , Backstory is Journalism 101 by the course’s master teacher.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012127
- Title
- Backstory: Inside the Business of News
- Author
- Auletta, Ken
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine-
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine-
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1594200009
- ISBN 13
- 9781594200007
- Publisher
- Penguin Press / Penguin Group
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, PHOTOGRAPHY / Photojournalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Science;
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Literature is an art and that is why I have incorporated a bookstore into my main business, custom framing. While I thoroughly enjoy this business, my first love always was and always will be books.
Some recent feedback:
1. "You are the champion of perfect book-mailers! How wonderfully you protected the book by bubble wrap and you reinforced the envelope so well with tape. The book is in pristine condition. Thank you so much for doing such a beautiful job".
2." Just received my copy of "Brighty of the Grand Canyon". Just as described (perfect really) and your processing time is totally amazing. Thank you for such a wonderful job. I am impressed and will gladly do business with you again as need and money allow".
3." Just a note to say the book arrived several days ago, which is really quick.
My customer is delighted with it". 4. I recently purchase a first edition book from you (Herbs and Apples), and I just want to thank you for your prompt service, careful packaging and reasonable price. Also, your description of the book was detailed and accurate, so the book is as I expected.
Thank you for visiting my virtual store. If you're in the neighborhood - You All Come - as they say around here!
Inga
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