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Watchdogs of democracy? : the waning Washington press corps and how it has failed the public Cover Image Book Book

Watchdogs of democracy? : the waning Washington press corps and how it has failed the public

Thomas, Helen 1920-2013 (Author).

Summary: The dean of the Washington press corps shares her personal manifesto about the responsibility of the press to provide quality political news coverage, arguing that reporters have increasingly failed to meet the challenge.

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  • ISBN: 0743267818 (hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780743267816 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: print
    xxii, 215 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, c2006.

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General Note:
Includes index.
"A Lisa Drew book."
Formatted Contents Note: Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1. Journalism : a most honorable profession -- 2. Eruptions of corruption -- 3. Presidents & reporters : never the twain shall meet -- 4. Press secretaries : in the bull's-eye -- 5. Spinning the news -- 6. Hail to the heroic leakers and whistle-blowers : and the journalists who protect them -- 7. Newspapers are a business, too -- 8. The FCC : fair and balanced? -- 9. Lapdogs of the press -- 10. Foreign correspondents in Iraq : déjà vu all over again! -- 11. The greatest American journalists of our times -- Epilogue -- Index.

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