Breaking The News by James Fallows

Breaking The News by James Fallows

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.

James Fallows is the National Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, where he has worked for more than two decades. Breaking the News: How the Media Undermines American Democracy, Looking at the Sun, More Like Us, and National Defense, which won the American Book Award for nonfiction, are among his past works. His wife and he live in Washington, DC.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780679758563
ISBN 10	0679758569
Title	Breaking The News
Author	James Fallows
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1997-01-14
Number of pages	352
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.