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Breaking the news : how the media undermine American democracy
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Breaking the news : how the media undermine American democracy

Author: James M Fallows
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1997.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st Vintage Books edView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James M Fallows
ISBN: 0679758569 9780679758563
OCLC Number: 36293285
Notes: "Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form by Pantheon ... in 1996"--T.p. verso. "January 1997."
Description: 337 p. ; 21 cm.
Other Titles: How the media undermine American democracy
Responsibility: James Fallows.

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"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.

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