News Is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century Paperback - 1998
by Pete Hamill
The newest title in The Library of Contemporary Thought series, "News Is a Verb" casts a critical--and hopeful--eye on the state of modern journalism. NPR sponsorship.
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LIBRARY OF CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
"When screaming headlines turn out to be based on stories that don't support them, the tale of the boy who cried wolf gets new life. When the newspaper is filled with stupid features about celebrities at the expense of hard news, the reader feels patronized. In the process, the critical relationship of reader to newspaper is slowly undermined."--from NEWS IS A VERB
NEWS IS A VERBJournalism at the End of the Twentieth Century
"With the usual honorable exceptions, newspapers are getting dumber. They are increasingly filled with sensation, rumor, press-agent flackery, and bloated trivialities at the expense of significant facts. The Lewinsky affair was just a magnified version of what has been going on for some time. Newspapers emphasize drama and conflict at the expense of analysis. They cover celebrities as if reporters were a bunch of waifs with their noses pressed enviously to the windows of the rich and famous. They are parochial, square, enslaved to the conventional pieties. The worst are becoming brainless printed junk food. All across the country, in large cities and small, even the better newspapers are predictable and boring. I once heard a movie director say of a certain screenwriter: 'He aspired to mediocrity, and he succeeded.' Many newspapers are succeeding in the same way."
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- Title News Is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century
- Author Pete Hamill
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House Publishing Group, New York
- Date 1998-04-20
- ISBN 9780345425287 / 0345425286
- Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.48 x 0.3 in (21.34 x 13.92 x 0.76 cm)
- Ages 11 to 18 years
- Grade levels 6 - 13
- Library of Congress subjects Journalism - United States - History - 20th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98005896
- Dewey Decimal Code 071.309
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