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Backstory: Inside the Business of News

Backstory: Inside the Business of News

Auletta, Ken

Paperback

Writing Instruction20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0143034634
ISBN13: 9780143034636
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Dec 28 2004
Pages: 350
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.82 Depth: 8.46
Language: English
It is said that journalism is a vital public service as well as a business, but more and more it is also said that big media consolidation; noisy, instant opinions on cable and the Internet; and political bias are making a mockery of such high-minded ideals. In Backstory, Ken Auletta explores why one of America's most important industries is also among its most troubled. He travels from the proud New York Times, the last outpost of old-school family ownership, whose own personnel problems make headline news, into the depths of New York City's brutal tabloid wars and out across the country to journalism's new wave, chains like the Chicago Tribune's, where synergy is ever more a mantra. He probes the moral ambiguity of media personalities--journalists who become celebrities themselves, padding their incomes by schmoozing with Imus and rounding the lucrative corporate lecture circuit. He reckons with the legacy of journalism's past and the different prospects for its future, from fallen stars of new media such as Inside.com to the rising star of cable news, Roger Ailes's Fox News. The product of more than ten years covering the news media for The New Yorker, Backstory is Journalism 101 by the course's master teacher.

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