Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President : Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House (Hardcover)

Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President : Wit and Wisdom from the Front Row at the White House (Hardcover)
By Helen Thomas

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In a natural follow-up to her national bestseller Front Row at the White House, the dean of the White House press corps presents a vivid and personal presidential chronicle. Currently a columnist for Hearst and a former White House bureau chief for UPI, Helen Thomas has covered an unprecedented nine presidential administrations, endearing herself with her trademark "Thank you, Mr. President," at the conclusion of White House press conferences. Thomas has amassed many wonderful tales about her personal interactions with and observations of the presidents and their families that can all be found in Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President.

In nine riveting chapters -- one for each administration -- Thomas delights, informs, spins yarns, and offers opinions on the commanders in chief, from Kennedy through George W. Bush. In these accounts, Thomas reveals Kennedy's love of sparring with the press, the unique invitation LBJ extended to Hubert Humphrey to become his running mate, and Reagan's down-home ways of avoiding the press's tougher questions. This book is as entertaining and compelling as Helen Thomas herself.Helen Thomas, until her resignation in May 2000, had served as White House bureau chief for United Press International since the Kennedy administration. Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President is a chronological collection of observations and anecdotes gleaned from four decades of work. The short tales and one- and two-liners are meant to be humorous, or at least lighthearted. Occasionally they are. The book is thick with repetitions of the familiar (George W. Bush's malapropisms and Kennedy's quip, after receiving honors from Yale University, about having the best of two worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.) or variations on tired jokes ("I'm no lady, I'm a reporter.") All too often, the inclusions are downright not funny: Jacqueline Kennedy, Thomas says, once chided an annoying U.S. Navy aide to "shape up or ship out." In the end, this is an unedifying and meager compilation. --H. O'Billovich Read more

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For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports (Hardcover)

For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports (Hardcover)
By Christopher Hitchens

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“For the sake of argument, one must never let a euphemism or a false consolation pass uncontested. The truth seldom lies, but when it does it lies somewhere in between.” The global turmoil of the last few years has severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few have written with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events — or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a disordered culture.

For the Sake of Argument ranges from the political squalor of Washington, as a beleaguered Bush administration seeks desperately to stave off disaster and Clinton prepares for power; to the twilight of Stalinism in Prague; from the Jewish quarter of Damascus in the aftermath of the Gulf War to the embattled barrios of Central America and the imperishable resistance of Sarajevo, as a difficult peace is negotiated with ruthless foes. Hitchens’s unsparing account of Western realpolitik in the end shows it to rest on delusion as well as deception.

The reader will find in these pages outstanding essays on political assassination in America as well as a scathing review of the evisceration of politics by pollsters and spin-doctors. Hitchens’s knowledge of the tortuous history of revolutions in the twentieth century helps him explain both the New York intelligentsia's flirtation with Trotskyism and the frailty of Communist power structures in Eastern Europe.

Hitchens's pointed reassessments of Graham Greene, P. G. Wodehouse and C. L. R. James, or his riotous celebration of drinking and smoking, display an engaging enthusiasm and an acerbic wit. Equally entertaining is his unsparing rogues’ gallery, which gives us unforgettable portraits of the lugubrious “Dr.” Kissinger, the comprehensively reactionary “Mother” Teresa, the preposterous Paul Johnson and the predictable P. J. O’Rourke. Read more

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Love, Poverty, and War : Journeys and Essays (Paperback)

Love, Poverty, and War : Journeys and Essays (Paperback)
By Christopher Hitchens

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"I did not, I wish to state, become a journalist because there was no other ‘profession' that would have me. I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information." Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays showcases America's leading polemicist's rejection of consensus and cliché, whether he's reporting from abroad in Indonesia, Kurdistan, Iraq, North Korea, or Cuba, or when his pen is targeted mercilessly at the likes of William Clinton, Mother Theresa ("a fanatic, a fundamentalist and a fraud"), the Dalai Lama, Noam Chomsky, Mel Gibson and Michael Bloomberg. Hitchens began the nineties as a "darling of the left" but has become more of an "unaffiliated radical" whose targets include those on the "left," who he accuses of "fudging" the issue of military intervention in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. Yet, as Hitchens shows in his reportage, cultural and literary criticism, and opinion essays from the last decade, he has not jumped ship and joined the right but is faithful to the internationalist, contrarian and democratic ideals that have always informed his work. Read more

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El legado de los Ramones (Spanish Edition) (Kindle Edition)

El legado de los Ramones (Spanish Edition) (Kindle Edition)
By José Ángel Mañas

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Los Ramones. Spiderman. Umbral. Los SMS. La Coca-Cola. Chiquilicuatre. Murakami. José Tomás. Amy Winehouse. Benicio del Toro. Céline. Salinger. Son algunos de los temas tocados en esta singular recopilación de artículos que lleva por título "El legado de los Ramones".
En ellos descubriremos la cara más reflexiva de José Ángel Mañas, escudriñando la actualidad cultural y reflexionando sobre el devenir de la estética. El conjunto constituye una auténtica radiografía de nuestra época y un repaso a las dos últimas décadas de nuestras existencias, a la par que una inmersión profundamente original en el entramado de nuestra cultura en este cambio de milenio que bien podría ser, mal que les pese a sus detractores, una auténtica Edad de Bronce.
Cada época necesita sus testigos privilegiados para comprenderse a sí misma. Esa es la tarea que se ha propuesto, con este libro atípico y sugerente, José Ángel Mañas. Así que enchufad vuestros ipods al son del Inquilino Comunista, Los Planetas o Largartija Nick y... disfrutad del viaje a través de "El legado de los Ramones". Read more

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Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind (Kindle Edition)

Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind (Kindle Edition)
By Tim Groseclose PhD

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Dr. Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science and economics at UCLA, has spent years constructing precise, quantitative measures of the slant of media outlets. He does this by measuring the political content of news, as a way to measure the PQ, or “political quotient” of voters and politicians.

Among his conclusions are: (i) all mainstream media outlets have a liberal bias; and (ii) while some supposedly conservative outlets—such the Washington Times or Fox News’ Special Report—do lean right, their conservative bias is less than the liberal bias of most mainstream outlets.

Groseclose contends that the general leftward bias of the media has shifted the PQ of the average American by about 20 points, on a scale of 100, the difference between the current political views of the average American, and the political views of the average resident of Orange County, California or Salt Lake County, Utah. With Left Turn readers can easily calculate their own PQ—to decide for themselves if the bias exists. This timely, much-needed study brings fact to this often overheated debate.

Dr. Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science and economics at UCLA, has spent years constructing precise, quantitative measures of the slant of media outlets. He does this by measuring the political content of news, as a way to measure the PQ, or “political quotient” of voters and politicians.

Among his conclusions are: (i) all mainstream media outlets have a liberal bias; and (ii) while some supposedly conservative outlets—such the Washington Times or Fox News’ Special Report—do lean right, their conservative bias is less than the liberal bias of most mainstream outlets.

Groseclose contends that the general leftward bias of the media has shifted the PQ of the average American by about 20 points, on a scale of 100, the difference between the current political views of the average American, and the political views of the average resident of Orange County, California or Salt Lake County, Utah. With Left Turn readers can easily calculate their own PQ—to decide for themselves if the bias exists. This timely, much-needed study brings fact to this often overheated debate.

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Deadline Artists: The Greatest Newspaper Columns by America's Greatest Newspaper Columnists (Hardcover)

Deadline Artists: The Greatest Newspaper Columns by America's Greatest Newspaper Columnists (Hardcover)
By Jesse Angelo

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America's story has always been best told in its newspapers. From the local and mundane-crime blotters, crop prices, and Sunday sermons-to the Federalist Papers and Watergate, the press has played an outsized role in our nation's culture and history. Newspapers in America have always been the crucible where our passions and debates are tried by the only judge this nation respects: public opinion. At a time of great transition in the news media, Deadline Artists celebrates the relevance of the newspaper column through the simple power of excellent writing. It is an inspiration for a new generation of writers--whether their medium is print or digital-looking to learn from the best of their predecessors.

Contributors include: Jimmy Breslin, Mike Royko, Murray Kempton, Ernie Pyle, Peggy Noonan, Thomas L. Friedman, David Brooks, Mitch Albom, Dorothy Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Benjamin Franklin, Fanny Fern, Richard Harding Davis, Grantland Rice, Will Rogers, Orson Welles, Langston Hughes, Woody Guthrie, Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, H.L. Mencken, Ben Hecht, Westbrook Pegler, Heywood Broun, Damon Runyon, W. C. Heinz, Jimmy Cannon, Red Smith, Russell Baker, Art Buchwald, William F. Buckley, Hunter S. Thompson, Pete Dexter, Carl Hiaasen, Dave Barry, Leonard Pitts, Anna Quindlen, Thomas Boswell, Tony Kornheiser, Kathleen Parker, Maureen Dowd, Bob Herbert, Michael Kinsley, Cynthia Tucker, George Will, Jack Newfield, Mike Barnicle, Pete Hamill and Steve Lopez Read more

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Speak Softly and Carry A Big Stick: How Local TV Broadcasters Exert Political Power (Paperback)

Speak Softly and Carry A Big Stick: How Local TV Broadcasters Exert Political Power (Paperback)
By J. Snider

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"Broadcasters have always been coddled by politicians, and Speak Softly explains how and why. J.H. Snider tells the story with the rigor of a scholar, the doggedness of an investigative reporter and the zeal of a reformer."

-Paul Taylor, Executive Vice President, Pew Research Center

"J.H. Snider offers an extremely comprehensive and well-documented look 'behind the curtain' at how the National Association of Broadcasters drives its national legislative agenda. This is must reading for not only political scientists but for all who are interested in media policy and how it gets made in Washington.”

-Chellie Pingree, President and CEO, Common Cause

"This astute book is a first-rate work of original scholarship. It also provides an unsettling description of broadcasters' policy influence. When their own interests are involved, broadcasters cannot be trusted to act in the way they demand of all others in society. Readers will no doubt question whether J.H. Snider's recommended solution is a practical one. But no reader will question his call for new measures."

-Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard University

"Having played a role in the mad-cap drama of telecommunications legislation Snider documents, I can tell you he has captured the essence of the machinations, strange bedfellows, and almost single-minded, righteous self-interest that drives the telecommunications debate. Like it or not, this is how the power game is really played."

-Stephen R. Effros, Former President (1976-1999), Cable Telecommunications Association

"J.H. Snider's Speak Softly is one of the most important books on media policy and governance that I have read in years. With rare thoughtfulness, Snider combines a rigorous and detailed examination of how policymaking works in the United States with a provocative and intellectually imaginative proposal for reform. This book not only deserves, it demands, the attention of policy makers and concerned citizens who wish to see a free press and a free society."

-Robert W. McChesney, Professor and Author, The Problem of the Media

"This is a theoretically rigorous and meticulously researched examination of the growing conflicts of interest embedded in our communications policymakers and the media institutions that cover them. Snider's documentation of the various means by which broadcasters can influence policymakers -- and the extent to which they use such influence -- on behalf of their own economic self-interest is a wake-up call to any citizen concerned about the future of our media system and our democracy."

-Philip Napoli, Professor and Director, Donald McGannon Communication Research Center, Fordham University

"A fascinating and perceptive look at the politics behind the biggest grant of public property to private parties in the 20th Century."

-Blair Levin, former FCC Chief of Staff (1993-1997)

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Scalper: Inside the World of a Professional Ticket Broker (Kindle Single) (Kindle Edition)

Scalper: Inside the World of a Professional Ticket Broker (Kindle Single) (Kindle Edition)
By Clancy Martin

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Novelist and philosophy professor Clancy Martin (How To Sell, FSG, 2009) and television writer Hank Chilton (Nip/Tuck) go inside the life of Sunshine, a professional sports ticket scalper in San Francisco, in a revealing inside portrait of the business and its players.

Career scalper "Sunshine" lets authors Clancy Martin and Hank Chilton tag along for a busy weekend of events in the Bay Area, including a Giants' playoff game, Cal-Berkeley and Stanford football games, home games for both the Raiders and the 49ers, the San Francisco Air Show, Van Morrison and O.A.R. concerts, and an Ultimate Fighting Championship match in San Jose. While online services like Craig's List, StubHub, and Razorgator have changed the secondary ticket market forever, lifers like Sunshine maintain decades' worth of parking-lot wisdom and memorable anecdotes. For readers, the ticket buyer's tips alone merit the cost of admission. --Jason Kirk Read more

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Lost at the Con (Kindle Edition)

Lost at the Con (Kindle Edition)
By Bryan Young

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Lost at the Con tells the tale of a drunken political journalist and his dangerous assignment to a science fiction and fantasy convention.

Though he'd rather be at home drinking his liver to death, his spiteful editor delivers an ultimatum: take the assignment or lose the steady paycheck.

Since Cobb can't afford to turn down the job, he heads to Atlanta and dives head first into the realm of Griffin*Con, renowned the world over as the Mardis Gras of geek conventions. There, he finds all of the science fiction, fantasy, and cosplay he would expect, but he also finds something more sinister: a seedy underbelly of geeky debauchery, slash fiction, booze, sex, and drugs.

Can he make it through this assignment without snapping and winding up on the front page himself? Or will the entire experience change him in ways he never imagined possible?

It's been called "A masterful blend of fictional Gonzo journalism and geek culture that is sure to please audiences inside and outside the geek community." Read more

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The Helpers: An International Tale of Espionage and Corruption (Paperback)

The Helpers: An International Tale of Espionage and Corruption (Paperback)
By Suzanna E. Nelson

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American journalist, Jenny Osborne, has just received her first big assignment abroad to report on the war situation between the government and rebels in Congo, but soon after their arrival, she and her photojournalist, John Spencer discover that things are not as they seem.

When Kai, a local schoolgirl, decides to end the psychological and sexual abuse that she and her mother have endured at the hands of Gaston, she seeks out Jenny for help. Kai gives Jenny damaging information that could bring down "The Helpers" - a powerful underground organization whose members include international businessmen and high priests. Their main aim is to maintain a stronghold on the natural resources of Congo and they will stop at nothing to prevent Jenny from exposing them.

Jenny finds herself on the run, caught in a web of intrigue, espionage, assassinations and corruption spanning from Congo to Europe, and as far reaching as the United States. Her only hope is Lance Lemmand, a long time French Intelligence Officer in Congo, and his handsome protégé Pierre-Jean Philippe. But will they find her before it is too late? Or will "The Helpers" silence them once and for all. Find out in the startling conclusion of: The Helpers. Read more

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Censored 1996: The 1996 Project Censored Yearbook (Paperback)

Censored 1996: The 1996 Project Censored Yearbook (Paperback)
By Carl Jensen

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The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order of importance according to students, faculty, and a national panel of judges. Each of the top stories is presented at length, alongside updates from the investigative reporters who broke the stories.
Beyond the Top 25 stories, additional chapters delve further into timely media topics: The Censored News and Media Analysis section provides annual updates on Junk Food News and News Abuse, Censored Déjà Vu, signs of hope in the alternative and news media, and the state of media bias and alternative coverage around the world. In the Truth Emergency section, scholars and journalists take a critical look at the US/NATO military-industrial-media empire. And in the Project Censored International section, the meaning of media democracy worldwide is explored in close association with Project Censored affiliates in universities and at media organizations all over the world.
A perennial favorite of booksellers, teachers, and readers everywhere, Censored is one of the strongest life signs of our current collective desire to get the news we citizens need—despite what Big Media tells us. Read more

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Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion (Hardcover)

Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion (Hardcover)
By Janet Reitman

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Scientology, created in 1954 by a prolific sci-fi writer named L. Ron Hubbard, claims to be the world’s fastest growing religion, with millions of members around the world and huge financial holdings. Its celebrity believers keep its profile high, and its teams of “volunteer ministers” offer aid at disaster sites such as Haiti and the World Trade Center. But Scientology is also a notably closed faith, harassing journalists and others through litigation and intimidation, even infiltrating the highest levels of the government to further its goals. Its attacks on psychiatry and its requirement that believers pay as much as tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars for salvation have drawn scrutiny and skepticism. And ex-members use the Internet to share stories of harassment and abuse. 

Now Janet Reitman offers the first full journalistic history of the Church of Scientology, in an evenhanded account that at last establishes the astonishing truth about the controversial religion. She traces Scientology’s development from the birth of Dianetics to today, following its metamorphosis from a pseudoscientific self-help group to a worldwide spiritual corporation with profound control over its followers and even ex-followers. 

Based on five years of research, unprecedented access to Church officials, confidential documents, and extensive interviews with current and former Scientologists, this is the defining book about a little-known world. Read more

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Inside Reporting: A Practical Guide to the Craft of Journalism (Paperback)

Inside Reporting: A Practical Guide to the Craft of Journalism (Paperback)
By Tim Harrower

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This text does for reporting what Tim Harrower's The Newspaper Designer's Handbook has previously done for design: make it fun and accessible to newcomers. Harrower is an award-winning editor, designer and columnist who has previously taught at Portland State University and currently conducts journalism workshops. Inside Reporting emphasizes the basics but also provides a wealth of information on online reporting and packaging stories in more visual, interactive ways. It also includes more useful information on feature writing--from stories to reviews and column-writing--than any other text in the field. Read more

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End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate (Counterpunch) (Paperback)

End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate (Counterpunch) (Paperback)
By Alexander Cockburn

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We can no longer trust that our journalists are reporting the news without underlying corporate or governmental agendas. The US government deregulates radio and right-wing Clear Channel gobbles up available frequencies. Journalists are embedded and the war in Iraq is a noble one. Whether the information is fabricated, one-sided, or illegally obtained, recent scandals like those involving Judy Miller and Robert Woodward only serve to underline the point that journalistic integrity is not what it used to be.

Enter Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn, who have not only kept the tradition of muckraking alive, but have reinvented and reinvigorated it for our times. Their newest effort, End Times, presents a detailed scrutiny of the “quality” print press and leading corporate media in the last decade, detailing a disastrous sequence of misrepresentation, suppression, ignorance, and willful embrace of the government’s agenda. These essays trace the impending disintegration of what is now “old media”—the traditional and now potentially tainted sources of our daily news—and looks toward the emergence of an entirely new landscape of mass communications: one that includes a more populist approach to information dissemination.

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Introduction to Professional Newswriting: Reporting for the Modern Media (Paperback)

Introduction to Professional Newswriting: Reporting for the Modern Media (Paperback)
By Conrad C. Fink

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The Killing Game: Selected Writings by the author of Dark Alliance (Paperback)

The Killing Game: Selected Writings by the author of Dark Alliance (Paperback)
By Gary Webb

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Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic effect to these kinds of stories, and it was almost as if the stories found him. It was his gift, and, ultimately, it was his downfall.
He was best known for his story Dark Alliance, written for the San Jose Mercury News in 1996. In it Webb linked the CIA to the crack-cocaine epidemic in Los Angeles during the Iran Contra scandal. His only published book, Dark Alliance is still a classic of contemporary journalism. But his life consisted of much more than this one story, and The Killing Game is a collection of his best investigative stories from his beginning at the Kentucky Post to his end at the Sacramento News & Review. It includes Webb's series at the Kentucky Post on organized crime in the coal industry, at the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Ohio State’s negligent medical board, and on the US military’s funding of first-person shooter video games. The Killing Game is a dedication to his life’s work outside of Dark Alliance, and it’s an exhibition of investigative journalism in its truest form. Read more

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Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America (Nation Books) (Paperback)

Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America (Nation Books) (Paperback)
By Bruce Shapiro

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Great investigative journalism is present-tense literature: part detective story, part hellraising. This is the first anthology of its kind, bringing together outstanding (and often otherwise unavailable) practitioners of the muckraking tradition, from the Revolutionary era to the present day. Ranging from mainstream figures like Woodward and Bernstein to legendary iconoclasts such as I. F. Stone and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, the dispatches in this collection combine the thrill of the chase after facts with a burning sense of outrage. As American history, Shaking the Foundations offers a you-are-there chronicle of great scandals and debates as reporters revealed them to their contemporaries: Jim Crow and financial trusts, migrant labor and wars, witch-hunts and government corruption. As journalism, these readings—from writers as diverse as Henry Adams and Ralph Nader, Lincoln Steffens and Barbara Ehrenreich—are a source of inspiration for today's muckrakers. For the general reader, Shaking the Foundations reveals investigative journalism as a storytelling force capable of bringing down presidents, freeing the innocent, challenging the logic of wars, and exposing predatory corporations. Other selected contributors include Henry Adams, John Steinbeck, Upton Sinclair, Edward R. Murrow, Rachel Carson, Jessica Mitford, Susan Brownmiller, Anthony Lukas, Neil Sheehan, Drew Pearson, and Jack Anderson.

Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World (Kindle Edition)

Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World (Kindle Edition)
By Andrew Breitbart

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Known for his network of conservative websites that draws millions of readers everyday, Andrew Breitbart has one main goal: to make sure the "liberally biased" major news outlets in this country cover all aspects of a story fairly. Breitbart is convinced that too many national stories are slanted by the news media in an unfair way.

In RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION, Breitbart talks about the key issues that Americans face, how he has aligned himself with the Tea Party, and how one needs to deal with the liberal news world head on. Along the way, he details his early years, working with Matt Drudge, the Huffington Post, and so on, and how Breitbart developed his unique style of launching key websites to help get the word out to conservatives all over.

A rollicking and controversial read, Breitbart will certainly raise your blood pressure, one way or another. Read more

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Once There Was a War (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)

Once There Was a War (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
By John Steinbeck

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Nobel laureate John Steinbeck's bracing from-the-frontlines account of World War II-now with a new cover and introduction

In 1943 John Steinbeck was on assignment for The New York Herald Tribune, writing from Italy and North Africa, and from England in the midst of the London blitz. In his dispatches he focuses on the human-scale effect of the war, portraying everyone from the guys in a bomber crew to Bob Hope on his USO tour and even fighting alongside soldiers behind enemy lines. Taken together, these writings create an indelible portrait of life in wartime. Read more

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Page One: Inside The New York Times and the Future of Journalism (Participant Media Guide) (Paperback)

Page One: Inside The New York Times and the Future of Journalism (Participant Media Guide) (Paperback)
By David Folkenflik

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The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers (Hardcover)

The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers (Hardcover)
By James O'Shea

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In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it comprised the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive into bankruptcy and public scandal? In The Deal From Hell, veteran Tribune and Los Angeles Times editor James O'Shea takes us behind the scenes of the decisions that led to disaster in boardrooms and newsrooms from coast to coast, based on access to key players, court testimony, and sworn depositions.

The Deal From Hell is a riveting narrative that chronicles how news industry executives and editors--convinced they were acting in the best interests of their publications--made a series of flawed decisions that endangered journalistic credibility and drove the newspapers, already confronting a perfect storm of political, technological, economic, and social turmoil, to the brink of extinction. Read more

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Sony ICD-BX800 2 GB Flash Memory Digital Voice Recorder (Silver) (Electronics)

Sony ICD-BX800 2 GB Flash Memory Digital Voice Recorder (Silver) (Electronics)
By Sony

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Don't miss a word with the ultra-portable ICD-BX800 digital voice recorder. The BX800 has made recording easier than ever with Voice Operated Recording, which starts and stops automatically. Featuring 4 recording modes and up to 534 hours2 of recording time, you'll never miss those random thoughts or ideas. Read more

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Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method (Writing & Reporting News: A Coaching Method) (Paperback)

Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method (Writing & Reporting News: A Coaching Method) (Paperback)
By Carole Rich

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Intended to be the core text for the introductory news writing and reporting course which may be titled Introduction to News Reporting and Writing, News and Feature Writing, Newswriting, or Journalistic Reporting and Writing. Students often take this course as the initial news reporting/writing requirement in a school of Journalism or Mass Communications department. Read more

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The Corpse Had a Familiar Face (Paperback)

The Corpse Had a Familiar Face (Paperback)
By Edna Buchanan

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EDNA BUCHANAN'S MASTERPIECE...TALES THAT ARE AS HOT AS THE MIAMI STREETS SHE COVERED!

For eighteen years, Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Buchanan had one of the most exciting, frightening, and heartbreaking jobs a newspaperwoman could have -- working the police beat for the Miami Herald. Having covered more crimes than most cops, Buchanan garnered a reputation as a savvy, gritty writer with a unique point of view and inimitable style. Updated from its original publication, The Corpse Had a Familiar Face is her classic of street reportage. From cold-blooded murder, to violence in the heat of passion, to the everyday insanity of the city streets, Edna Buchanan reveals it all in her own trademark blend of compassionate reporting, hard-nosed investigation, and wry humor that has made her a legend in the world of journalism. Read more

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Censored 1998: The News That Didn't Make the News (Paperback)

Censored 1998: The News That Didn't Make the News (Paperback)
By Peter Phillips

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The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order of importance according to students, faculty, and a national panel of judges. Each of the top stories is presented at length, alongside updates from the investigative reporters who broke the stories.
Beyond the Top 25 stories, additional chapters delve further into timely media topics: The Censored News and Media Analysis section provides annual updates on Junk Food News and News Abuse, Censored Déjà Vu, signs of hope in the alternative and news media, and the state of media bias and alternative coverage around the world. In the Truth Emergency section, scholars and journalists take a critical look at the US/NATO military-industrial-media empire. And in the Project Censored International section, the meaning of media democracy worldwide is explored in close association with Project Censored affiliates in universities and at media organizations all over the world.
A perennial favorite of booksellers, teachers, and readers everywhere, Censored is one of the strongest life signs of our current collective desire to get the news we citizens need—despite what Big Media tells us. Read more

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20 Years of Censored News (Paperback)

20 Years of Censored News (Paperback)
By Carl Jensen

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Based on the work of Project Censored, the national media research project, 20 Years of Censored News reveals, year by year, the top censored news stories from 1976 to 1995. Of the 200 stories presented, less than 25 percent ever received sustained attention in the mainstream press. A disturbing report card of the media's long-term performance, 20 Years of Censored News provides rigorous documentation of the national news media's failure to keep the public informed. Read more

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Censored 1996: The 1996 Project Censored Yearbook (Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News -- The Year's Top 25 Censored Stories) (Paperback)

Censored 1996: The 1996 Project Censored Yearbook (Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News -- The Year's Top 25 Censored Stories) (Paperback)
By Carl Jensen

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The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order of importance according to students, faculty, and a national panel of judges. Each of the top stories is presented at length, alongside updates from the investigative reporters who broke the stories.
Beyond the Top 25 stories, additional chapters delve further into timely media topics: The Censored News and Media Analysis section provides annual updates on Junk Food News and News Abuse, Censored Déjà Vu, signs of hope in the alternative and news media, and the state of media bias and alternative coverage around the world. In the Truth Emergency section, scholars and journalists take a critical look at the US/NATO military-industrial-media empire. And in the Project Censored International section, the meaning of media democracy worldwide is explored in close association with Project Censored affiliates in universities and at media organizations all over the world.
A perennial favorite of booksellers, teachers, and readers everywhere, Censored is one of the strongest life signs of our current collective desire to get the news we citizens need—despite what Big Media tells us. Read more

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