| Description |
392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Gore Vidal -- t Acknowledgments -- editor's introduction -- ch. 1. The price of liberty / Gerard Colby -- ch. 3. The fox, the hounds, and the sacred cows / Jane Akre -- ch. 3. The silence of the lambs : an American in journalistic exile / Greg Palast -- ch. 4. Shouting at the crocodile / Maurice Murad -- ch. 5. Into the buzzsaw / Kristina Borjesson -- ch. 6. Coal mine canaries / David E. Hendrix -- ch. 7. When black becomes white / Philip Weiss -- ch. 8. Stories we love, stories we hate / Helen Malmgren -- ch. 9. The story no one wanted to hear / J. Robert Port -- ch. 10. A dream job / April Oliver -- ch. 11. Verdict first, evidence later : the case for Bobby Garwood / Monika Jensen-Stevenson -- ch. 12. Let's blow up our brand : the dangerous course of today's broadcast newsrooms / Karl Idsvoog -- ch. 13. Mainstream media : the drug war's shills / Michael Levine -- ch. 14. The mighty Wurlitzer plays on / Gary Webb -- ch. 15. Crimes and silence : the CIA's criminal acts and the media's silence / John Kelly -- ch. 16. What happened to good old-fashioned muckraking? / Carl Jensen -- ch. 17. The light that won't go out / Brant Houston -- ch. 18. The rise and fall of professional journalism / Robert McChesney -- Index. |
| Subject |
Freedom of the press -- United States.
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Press -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Börjesson, Kristina.
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| ISBN |
1573929727 alkaline paper |
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