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Letter From America 1946 2004 Letter From America 1946 2004
by Alistair Cooke

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The very best of Alistair Cooke's legendary "Letters From America", taken from the whole of his astonishing career, 1946-2004. Acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time, this is a collection that will be treasured by his millions... (read more)

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Obliviously on He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme Obliviously on He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme
by Calvin Trillin

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Does the Bush Administration sound any better in rhyme? In this biting array of verse, it at least sounds funnier. Calvin Trillin employs everything from a Gilbert and Sullivan style, for describing George Bush’s rescue in the South Carolina... (read more)

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Road to Air America: Breaking the Right Wing Stranglehold on Our Nation's Airwaves Road to Air America: Breaking the Right Wing Stranglehold on Our Nation's Airwaves
by Sheldon Drobny

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Road to Air America by Sheldon Drobny, is a candid look behind the scenes of the politics, wealth, and news media that inspired Mr. Drobny's vision and nearly derailed his ability to get America's first all liberal talk-radio network going. From his... (read more)

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Oriana Fallaci: The Rhetoric of Freedom (New Directions in European Writing,) Oriana Fallaci: The Rhetoric of Freedom (New Directions in European Writing,)
by John Gatt Rutter

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Oriana Fallaci (b. 1930) is an awkward presence on Italian bookshelves, in world journalism and among feminists. This book, the first literary study of Fallaci, examines the implications of the storms and silences that she keeps rousing. A fully... (read more)

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Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps's Chicago Experiment (History of Communication) Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps's Chicago Experiment (History of Communication)
by Duane C Stoltzfus

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Disgusted by publishers and editors who refused to cover important stories for fear of offending advertisers, the press baron E. W. Scripps rejected conventional wisdom and set out to prove that an ad-free newspaper could be profitable entirely on... (read more)

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The Weekly Standard: A Reader: 1995-2005 The Weekly Standard: A Reader: 1995-2005
by William Kristol

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A collection of the most provocative and insightful writing from the influential conservative magazine the Weekly Standard. Smart, tough, and opinionated, The Weekly Standard has been America's most influential conservative journal since its inception... (read more)

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Dish:: How Gossip Became the News and the News Became Just Another Show Dish:: How Gossip Became the News and the News Became Just Another Show
by Jeannette Walls

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Chapter One"Citzen Reporter" "My reaction to having our speaker today at the National Press Club was the same as a lot of other members," Doug Harbrecht, the club's president and Business Week's Washington bureau chief, told the two hundred journalists... (read more)

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Katharine Graham's Washington Katharine Graham's Washington
by Katharine Graham

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As a fitting epilogue to a life intimately linked to Washington, D.C., Pulitzer Prize winner Katharine Graham, the woman who transformed The Washington Post into a paper of record, left behind this lovingly collected anthology of writings about the city... (read more)

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Backstory: Inside the Business of News Backstory: Inside the Business of News
by Ken Auletta

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From Howell Raines and the New York Times to Roger Ailes and Fox News, America's most celebrated media journalist dissects the people and institutions shaping media, for good and for ill, in a time of profound change. It is said that journalism is a... (read more)

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The Best American Political Writing (Best American Political Writing) The Best American Political Writing (Best American Political Writing)
by Royce Flippin

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The Best American Political Writing 2003 preserves the most incisive, controversial, and entertaining writing about the notable events and people of 2002. In a year engulfed in political controversy, from President Bush’s plans for a preemptive war... (read more)

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Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All
by Tom Fenton

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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... (read more)

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A Writer's Life A Writer's Life
by Gay Talese

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The inner workings of a writer's life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life —the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling... (read more)

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March to a Promised Land: The Civil Rights Files of a White Reporter 1952-1968 March to a Promised Land: The Civil Rights Files of a White Reporter 1952-1968
by Al Kuettner

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Veteran reporter Al Kuettner begins: You had to walk in the footsteps of these people--black and white--to get some understanding of their deep feelings, their prejudices, the sad deprivation suffered by so many blacks, the fear in whites. You had to... (read more)

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Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness --- And Liberalism --- To the Women of America Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness --- And Liberalism --- To the Women of America
by Myrna Blyth

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Blowing the whistle on a job she herself did for over ten years at Ladies Home Journal as editor-in-chief, Blyth reveals the almost institutionalized selling of a liberal/do-gooders message to women through chararacterizing women themselves as victims... (read more)

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The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting: Creating Alternatives to Corporate Media The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting: Creating Alternatives to Corporate Media
by David Barsamian

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Concentration of the media has reached new heights, making it harder for alternative and critical voices to gain a hearing. The recent $86 billion merger of Time Warner and AOL is just one of many signs of the narrowing of information sources. Market... (read more)

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It Ain't Necessarily So: How the Media Remake Our Picture of Reality It Ain't Necessarily So: How the Media Remake Our Picture of Reality
by David Murray

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Anthrax scares. Airplane crashes. The AIDS epidemic. Presidential election polls and voting results. Global warming. All these news stories require scientific savvy, first to report, and then-for the average person-to understand. It Ain't Necessarily So... (read more)

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In the News: American Journalists View Their Craft: American Journalists View Their Craft In the News: American Journalists View Their Craft: American Journalists View Their Craft
by Jerry W Knudson

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This book provides rare and candid insights by those who experienced the reality of meeting a deadline and the pressures of space limitations and access to information. Knudson has crafted a seamless narrative of journalism in America by tying together... (read more)

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Hot Air Hot Air
by Howard Kurtz

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Kurtz takes readers into the studio for an in-depth and disturbing look at the performers and pundits behind today’s television and radio talk shows and at their corrosive influence on America’s social, political, and moral fabric. From Rush... (read more)

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Saints, Sinners & Shortstops Saints, Sinners & Shortstops
by Jim Becker

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If careers are checkered, Jim Becker's is a chessboard. From Hawaii to Brooklyn, Bayreuth, Babylon and Botswana (Hawaii's Antipode) this multi-faceted newsman has crisscrossed every square on the board, collecting along the way fascinating stories about... (read more)

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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
by Anderson Cooper

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Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has changed the way we watch the news. In this gripping, candid, and remarkably powerful memoir, he offers an... (read more)

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