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Author Thomas, Helen, 1920-2013.

Title Watchdogs of democracy? : the waning Washington press corps and how it has failed the public / Helen Thomas.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, [2006]
©2006

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  070.4 493 T363    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  070.4 THO    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  070.4 THO    Check Shelf
Description xxii, 215 pages ; 24 cm
Note Includes index.
"A Lisa Drew book."
Contents 1. Journalism : a most honorable profession -- 2. Eruptions of corruption -- 3. Presidents & reporters : never the twain shall meet -- 4. Press secretaries : in the bull's-eye -- 5. Spinning the news -- 6. Hail to the heroic leakers and whistle-blowers : and the journalists who protect them -- 7. Newspapers are a business, too -- 8. The FCC : fair and balanced? -- 9. Lapdogs of the press -- 10. Foreign correspondents in Iraq : déjà vu all over again! -- 11. The greatest American journalists of our times.
Subject Government and the press -- United States.
Press and politics -- United States.
Journalism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Journalism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
ISBN 0743267818 hardcover
9780743267816 hardcover
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