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- Title
- Reading the News
- Author
- Robert Karl Manoff
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc
- Publication year
- 1986
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 039474649X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394746494
Now, six working journalists, press critics, and scholars at the leading edge of media criticism have been specially commissioned to make the familiar act of reading the news into a fresh and revealing event. Taking the famous "five W's and an H" (Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How), the authors turn these questions back on journalism for the first time to show us exactly what to make of the press.
Leon V. Sigal
Who? Sources Make the News
Carlin Romano
What? Grisly Truth about Bare Facts
Michael Schudson
When? Deadlines, Datelines, and History
Where? Cartography, Community, and the Cold War
James W. Carey
Why And How? The Dark Continent of American Journalism
Robert Karl Manoff
Writing the News (By Telling the "Story")
For everyone who reads the newspaper, for the journalist, and for the media critic alike, these essays offer fresh, provocative insights into a centerpiece of American culture, the news.
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Now, six working journalists, press critics, and scholars at the leading edge of media criticism have been specially commissioned to make the familiar act of reading the news into a fresh and revealing event. Taking the famous "five W's and an H" (Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How), the authors turn these questions back on journalism for the first time to show us exactly what to make of the press.
Leon V. Sigal
Who? Sources Make the News
Carlin Romano
What? Grisly Truth about Bare Facts
Michael Schudson
When? Deadlines, Datelines, and History
Where? Cartography, Community, and the Cold War
James W. Carey
Why And How? The Dark Continent of American Journalism
Robert Karl
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World of Books (was SecondSale)
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