Author: Herbert J. Gans
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: news, medill, time, visions, american, press, newsweek, nbc, study, what’s, cbs, evening, deciding, nightly
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2005-02-22
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0810122375
ISBN-13: 9780810122376
For ten years, Herbert J. Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and talking to the journalists who choose the national news stories that inform America about itself. Writing during the golden age of journalism, Gans included such headline events as the War on Poverty, the Vietnam War and the protests against it, urban ghetto disorders, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and Watergate. He was interested in the values, professional standards, and the external pressures that shaped journalists’ judgments.
Author: Lisa Finnegan
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: news, democracy, coverage, questions, asked
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-11-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0275993353
ISBN-13: 9780275993351
No Questions Asked takes an overarching view of media coverage from the day of the 9/11 attacks through the war in Iraq. It also compares and contrasts how the U.S. media vs. international media covered key events during this period. Fact-based rather than polemical, the book explains why journalists responded the way they did during wartime and explores the ramifications for democracy of a weak press.The Fourth Estate’s most important job is to present unbiased, accurate information about events, issues, and policies to the public. Without public scrutiny, administrations can become a b
Author: Evan Handler
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Keywords: news, alive, temporary
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1594489955
ISBN-13: 9781594489952
A provocative, funny, and whip- smart memoir of how one man learned to find joy in his own life after years of hand-to-hand combat with death. Actor and author Evan Handler’s new book, It’s Only Temporary, is both a deeply personal memoir and a series of meditations on life, love, faith, gratitude, and mortality. In closely examining his own triumphs, mistakes, and less-than-ideal relationships since his miraculous recovery from a supposedly incurable leukemia more than twenty years ago, Handler zeroes in on the most profound question facing every human being: How can a person live well wi
Author: Tom Fenton
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: news, danger, business, reporting, decline
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0060853956
ISBN-13: 9780060853952
At a time when the world has been blindsided by failures of intelligence, a veteran CBS News correspondent reveals how the news media has betrayed our trust and endangered our democracy. Tom Fenton is the senior European correspondent for CBS News. In his long journalistic experience, he has reported on everything from the fall of the Shah of Iran to the crumbling of communism in East Germany to the bombing of Israel during the first Gulf War. Today he has covered the movements of al Qaeda throughout Europe–a story he was tracking before 9/11. And in the three years since, he has come to a s
Author: Peter Phillips
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Keywords: news, didn, censored
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1888363649
ISBN-13: 9781888363647
Author: Bonnie Anderson
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: news, business, broadcast, line, infotainment, flash, journalism
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-06-14
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 047040177X
ISBN-13: 9780470401774
While talking heads debate the media’s alleged conservative or liberal bias, award-winning journalist Bonnie Anderson knows that the problem with television news isn’t about the Left versus the Right-- it’s all about the money. From illegal hiring practices to ethnocentric coverage to political cheerleading, News Flash exposes how American broadcast conglomerates’ pursuit of the almighty dollar consistently trumps the need for fair and objective reporting. Along the way to the bottomline, the proud tradition of American television journalism has given way to an entertai
Author: Staff of U.S.News & World ReportJosh Fischman
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Keywords: schools, medical, guide, ultimate, news
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1402211902
ISBN-13: 9781402211904
#1 Bestselling Guide to Medical Schools Choose the Right School and Get In! The U.S. News Ultimate Guide to Medical Schools will help you choose the school that best meets your needs - and make the cut. Expert advice, plus up-to-date profiles of the nation’s med schools, give you what you need to make smart decisions about your future. This step-by-step guide covers: How to choose the right program A look inside fi ve top medical schools How to get in and pay for it all One student’s fi rst-year diary Foreign medical schools that welcome American students Profiles of the cou
