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Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America

Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America

McGowan, William

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ISBN10: 1594034869
ISBN13: 9781594034862
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: Nov 16 2010
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.39 Depth: 9.15
Language: English
The New York Times was once considered the gold standard in American journalism and the most trusted news organization in America. Today, it is generally understood to be a vehicle for politically correct ideologies, tattered liberal pieties, and a repeated victim of journalistic scandal and institutional embarrassment.

In Gray Lady Down, the hard-hitting follow up to Coloring the News, William McGowan asks who is responsible for squandering the finest legacy in American journalism. Combining original reporting, critical assessment and analysis, McGowan exposes the Times' obsessions with diversity, soft pop cultural news, and countercultural Vietnam-era attitudinizing, and reveals how these trends have set America's most important news icon at odds with its journalistic mission--and with the values and perspectives of much of mainstream America.

Gray Lady Down considers the consequences--for the Times, for the media, and, most important, for American society and its political processes at this fraught moment in our nation's history. In this highly volatile media environment, the fate of the Times may portend the future of the fourth estate.

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