Reality Show
Inside the Last Great Television News War
- Hardcover
480 pages
- Release Date
11 March 2008
Summary
Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings: They were on a first-name basis with the country for a generation, leading viewers through moments of triumph and tragedy. But now that a new generation has succeeded them, the once-glittering job of network anchor seems unmistakably tarnished. In an age of instantaneous Internet news, cable echo chambers and iPod downloads, who really needs the evening news? And, by extension, who needs Katie Couric, Brian Williams, and Charlie Gibson?
But the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780743299824 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0743299825 |
| Author: | Howard Kurtz |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Scribner |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 11 March 2008 |
| Weight: | 771g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm x 33mm |
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About The Author
Howard Kurtz
Howard Kurtz is the media reporter for The Washington Post, and also writes a weekly column for the newspaper and a daily blog for its website. He is also host of CNN’s Reliable Sources, the longest-running media criticism show on television. His previous books include New York Times bestselling Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine (1998) and The Fortune Tellers: Inside Wall Street’s Game of Money, Media, and Manipulation (2000). His book Hot Air: All Talk All the Time (1996) was named by Business Week as one of the ten best business books of the year and Media Circus: The Trouble with America’s Newspapers (1993) was chosen as the best recent book about the news media by American Journalism Review. Kurtz joined The Washington Post in 1981, and his work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Newsweek, New York, and other national magazines. He lives with his family in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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