Breaking the news : how the media undermine American democracy /
Fallows, James M.
Breaking the news : how the media undermine American democracy / [electronic resource] How the media undermine American democracy James Fallows. - 1st Vintage Books ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1997. - 337 p. ; 21 cm.
"Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Pantheon ... in 1996"--T.p. verso. "January 1997."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-311) and index.
"Why do Americans mistrust the news media? It may be because shows 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. Or because muckrakers have given way to "buckrakers" who command huge fees lecturing to the very interest groups they are supposed to cover." "These are just some 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. Moving from rigorous analysis to concrete proposals, the result is a devastating critique that is indispensable for anyone who makes the news - and anyone who reads or watches it."--BOOK JACKET.
0679758569 (pbk.) 9780679758563 (pbk.) 9780679442097 067944209X
Journalism--Objectivity--United States.
Mass media--Objectivity--United States.
Press and politics--United States.
Massamedia.
Publieke opinie.
Journalistiek.
Berufsethik.
Medienkompetenz.
Öffentliche Meinung.
USA.
PN4888.O25 / F35 1996
302.23/0973
Breaking the news : how the media undermine American democracy / [electronic resource] How the media undermine American democracy James Fallows. - 1st Vintage Books ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1997. - 337 p. ; 21 cm.
"Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Pantheon ... in 1996"--T.p. verso. "January 1997."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-311) and index.
"Why do Americans mistrust the news media? It may be because shows 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. Or because muckrakers have given way to "buckrakers" who command huge fees lecturing to the very interest groups they are supposed to cover." "These are just some 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. Moving from rigorous analysis to concrete proposals, the result is a devastating critique that is indispensable for anyone who makes the news - and anyone who reads or watches it."--BOOK JACKET.
0679758569 (pbk.) 9780679758563 (pbk.) 9780679442097 067944209X
Journalism--Objectivity--United States.
Mass media--Objectivity--United States.
Press and politics--United States.
Massamedia.
Publieke opinie.
Journalistiek.
Berufsethik.
Medienkompetenz.
Öffentliche Meinung.
USA.
PN4888.O25 / F35 1996
302.23/0973