Sign-In
Cart
The Eighth Commandment
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781948979962
Publisher: Blue Fortune Enterprises LLC
Published: Jun 14 2023
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
What does it mean for our country to have a free press?
What happens when constraints are inflicted upon the media?
To seven-year-old Kevin O'Connor, the smell of printer's ink was the most delightful smell in the world. Back then, printer's ink was the lifeblood of the local newspaper and, in some ways, of the town.
Kevin began working for his hometown newspaper when he was in his early twenties, just after he returned from the war in Southeast Asia.
It was a job he held for a while, left and came back to. It was a job that meant he had the opportunity to dig for the truth, to highlight positive events in his community while exposing the more unsavory goings on that were always happening. It was a job that allowed him to help people.
After all, that's what it means to have a free press.
But small-town newspapers were dying. Decisions were made to boost sales by hyping sensationalism.
Kevin had to decide what kind of journalist he wanted to be. Would he continue reporting when the standards shifted? Or would he walk away, leaving readers to wade through inaccuracies and untruths without providing a counterpoint?
As the structure of journalism crumbles, one man fights for what is right, knowing the stakes are high and the odds are against him.
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
John Updike: Novels 1978-1984 (Loa #339): The Coup / Rabbit Is Rich / The Witches of Eastwick
Updike, John
Hardcover
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback