Volume 49, Number 12 · July 18, 2002
What Else Is News?
By Russell Baker
The Editor: How I Saved the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency
by Jim Bellows
Andrews McMeel, 349 pp., $28.95
Into the Buzzsaw:Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press
edited by Kristina Borjesson, with a foreword by Gore Vidal
Prometheus, 392 pp., $26.00
The News About the News:American Journalism in Peril
by Leonard Downie Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser
Knopf, 292 pp., $25.00
Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives
by Todd Gitlin
Metropolitan, 260 pp., $25.00
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
by Bernard Goldberg
Regnery, 232 pp., $27.95
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. This scrutiny produces an endless stream of books, academic studies, magazine articles, newspaper columns, and phone calls to talk-radio stations from ordinary citizens with opinions to air. Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
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