All the News Unfit to Print
A History of How Things Were...and How They Were Reported
by Eric Burns
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All the News Unfit to Print
How does the news as it’s reported stack up against events as they really happened? Not so accurately, reports well-known media analyst Eric Burns in All the News Unfit to Print, a provocative look at journalistic misdeeds through the ages.
Burns covers a litany of blunders. He writes about how Samuel Johnson’s invention of quotes from Members of Parliament in The Gentleman’s Magazine in 1740 generated mistrust of journalists among the British public. Benjamin Franklin’s account of the trial of prostitute Polly Baker, while a fabrication, was designed to teach readers a moral lesson. On the other end of the spectrum, New York City’s Boss Tweed was taken to bribing journalists in exchange for favorable reportage. And Burns chronicles one of journalism’s lowest moments through the story of Walter Duranty’s reporting on the glories of Stalin’s Five-Year Plan in the early 1930s, which obfuscated some of the 20th century’s most monstrous crimes.
While Burns calls his book “a collection of aberrations,” All the News Unfit to Print makes abundantly clear the lasting impact of the “partisan, fabricated, scandalous, and sensationalistic, and sometimes stirring, brilliant, and indispensable” reporting.
Hardcover : 288 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ( April 27, 2009 )
Item #: 12-733318
ISBN: 9780470405239
Product Dimensions: 6.125 x 9.25 x 0.72inches
Product Weight: 15.0 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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