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This book explores the philosophy of a new mass movement of truth-tellers; its ethics, impacts on privacy, guidelines about deception, the discovery process of litigation, and the tension between secrecy and transparency--compiled from over a decade of investigative reporting coupled with a vast reference of philosophical research that pertains to the trials and tribulations of an American Muckraker in the information age.
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The one real difference between the American press and the Soviet state newspaper Pravda was that the Russian people knew they were being lied to. To expose the lies our media tell us today, controversial journalist James O'Keefe created Project Veritas, an independent news organization whose reporters go where traditional journalists dare not. Their investigative work–equal parts James Bond, Mike Wallace, and Saul Alinsky-has had a consistent and...
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Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business
In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, it reveals that what most people...
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Dragged to summer camp by her friend Charissa, twelve-year-old Gladys Gatsby, an undercover restaurant reviewer for a big New York City newspaper, finds a way to practice her cooking and restaurant reviewing skills.
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Just as Gladys Gatsby prepares to enter the complicated world of middle school, her secret gig as the New York Standard's youngest restaurant critic won't be a secret much longer--and Gladys must enlist the help of her Parisian aunt to be true to herself, and honest with her friends and family--
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Eleven-year-old Gladys Gatsby loves food and cooking, so when she lands an assignment to write a restaurant review for a New York City newspaper, she will do anything to make it happen, even risk the wrath of her fast-food loving parents.
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In his nearly thirty years at CBS News, Emmy Award-winner Bernard Goldberg earned a reputation as one of the preeminent reporters in the television news business. When he looked at his own industry, however, he saw that the media far too often ignored their primary mission: objective, disinterested reporting. Again and again he saw that they slanted the news to the left.
For years Goldberg appealed to reporters, producers, and network executives...
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Sports media superstar Clay Travis wants to save sports from the social justice warriors seeking to turn them into another political battleground.
Have you ever tuned into your favorite sports highlights show, only to find the talking heads yammering about the newest Trump tweets or what an athlete thinks about the second amendment? The way Clay Travis sees it, sports are barely about sports anymore. Whether
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Andy Rooney is a classic chronicler of America and her foibles. Over more than six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Rooney has told it to us straight and without a hint of sugar coating, but with more than a grain of truth and humor.
“Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit” brings together the best of more than a half-century of work (including long-out-of-print pieces from Rooney's early years) in an unforgettable celebration...
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Get the Summary of Malcolm Gladwell's What the Dog Saw in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures" is a collection of essays by Malcolm Gladwell that explores the intricacies of various phenomena through the lens of psychology, economics, and social science. The book delves into the lives of pitchmen like Ron Popeil and his family, who revolutionized the infomercial industry with...
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Over three and a half decades, Ted Conover has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immigrants, guarded prisoners in Sing Sing, and inspected meat for the USDA. His books and articles chronicling these experiences, including the award-winning “Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing”, have made him one of the premier practitioners of immersion reporting.
In immersion reporting-a literary cousin to ethnography, travel writing, and...
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Este libro reúne algunas de las investigaciones presentadas en las II Jornadas de Discurso y Poder, realizadas en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba en abril de 2021.
El encuentro fue organizado por la Secretaría de Ciencia y Tecnología y el proyecto Discursividades políticas y mediáticas contemporáneas: Dominancias y resistencias, dirigido por Fabiana Martínez y Marcela Sgammini.
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"Ha habido una constante a lo largo de mis cuatro décadas de carrera: La Historia. Su creación, su cuidado, y su iluminación a través de la tecnología de la época en que me encontraba. Ya sea transformando diarios de formato sábana a tabloide, de tabloide a Berliner, de blanco y negro a color, de formato impreso a digital - mi papel ha sido ser guardian de la historia, siempre asegurándome del modo en que fuera narrada. Hoy vivimos en una...
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Bestselling author of the Fletch series Gregory Mcdonald presents firsthand accounts of major events during the sixties and interviews with Joan Baez, Abbie Hoffman, Krishnamurti, Phil Ochs, Andy Warhol, and others. The year was 1966, and fresh off the heels of his controversial debut novel Running Scared, Mcdonald was hired to write for the Boston Globe with the instruction to "Go and have fun and write about it, and if you end up cut and bleeding...
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From finding and cultivating authors to effectively incorporating art and design, from the importance of fact checking and copyediting to the critical relationship between advertising dollars and content, this anthology provides a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the making of a successful and influential magazine. It also engages with the industry's most pressing issues, such as the future of magazines in a digital environment and the increasing pressure...
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L'art de raconter est au cœur même de la pratique journalistique. Dans le contexte de la révolution numérique, la maîtrise de l'écriture de presse demeure plus importante que jamais. Elle permet entre autres de départager, dans le magma des réseaux sociaux, les professionnels de l'information de ceux qui ne le sont pas, de même que l'information véridique et fiable de celle qui est inexacte et approximative.
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Réfléchir à la pratique journalistique à l'heure du numérique et de ses défis : tel était le but du colloque soulignant le centième anniversaire du Devoir, tenu le 11 mars 2010 à l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). La direction du quotidien, de même que trois de ses journalistes, ont été invités à se prononcer sur la quête de sens du monde médiatique en cette ère de grand bouleversement provoqué par l'évolution rapide...
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