ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani
Godina izdanja: xxx

manji format
234 strane
1961g
stranice požutele, očuvana

A prolific reporter for The New Yorker assesses newspaper articles of the last decades to show that lack of competition, public regulation, and professional criticism have endangered the objectivity of the press

In this book Liebling talks about the newspaper industry, publishers, and the shenanigans publishers-newspapers pull to further their ends. Most of the stories were written in the 40s-50s and compiled in the 60s, but are as true today as they were then. Newspapers ignore the obvious and important, make-up much of what they do report, and lines of advertising sold & circulation is always the bottom-line. News is the last thing any publisher wants to pay for, so they economize by making it up or hire experts to make it up (that is, the expert is here NOT where the news is happening, and provides an opinion of events they know nothing about). Experts dont require expense accounts and costly travel. Liebling cites several events where the press was totally in the fog but had plenty to say; Stalin`s death and his replacement are the best example of this phenomenon. And you get a sense of what sort of bums our government leaders are, or were. Liebling spills the beans on some of these people.