| Breaking The News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy |  | Author: James Fallows
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $3.85
as of 5/26/2012 21:11 EDT details
You Save: $11.10 (74%)
New (39) Used (173) Collectible (4) from $0.01
Seller: Integrity Books & Music
Sales Rank: 345,328
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 5.1 x 0.7 x 8
ISBN: 0679758569
EAN: 9780679758563
ASIN: 0679758569
Publication Date: January 14, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
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
Amazon.com Review
A lot of big-shot journalists didn't like this book, a systematic jeremiad about the current sad state of American political journalism. For instance, both the New York Times op-ed page and the New Yorker took pains to excoriate the book and its author--pretty good hints that Fallows is onto something. His point is that greed and intellectual sloth have fostered a political media elite that increasingly focuses on spin and ignores substance at the very time when solving the country's real problems requires all possible nuance.
|
| |
|
|
|
CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE COMES FROM AMAZON SERVICES LLC. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME. Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
