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Breaking The News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy

(Larger Image)	Breaking The News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy by James Fallows Product Group: Book Publisher: Vintage (1997-01-14) ISBN: 0679758569 EAN: 9780679758563 Binding/Media: Paperback - 352 pages Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed Release Date: 1997-01-14 SKU: 112209018 Condition: Used: Good Comments: Softcover, there are several places were there is a pen mark, ie a number, asteric, etc, firm binding, has some shelfwear to edges and corners, pages are crisp and clean. All items ship from a smoke-free home.
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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.

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