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...Some of you were taken aback by the cover image of the White House illuminated against an apparently ever darkening shroud of dusk. "I had to double-check the date on the cover," wrote a Colorado reader after experiencing a sense of deja vu. "For a minute there I thought we were back at the Clinton White House." "Your cover would have passed the bias test if it had substituted the Capitol building for the White House," suggested a New Jerseyan, "as both Democrats and Republicans were beneficiaries of Enron's greed." A Nebraskan pressed her charge more bluntly...
...book takes the reader on a journey through national newspapers, news networks and local broadcasters, sharing anecdotes, investigative success stories and interviews. At times, The News mimics the modern suspense novel, though its blow-by-blow accounts of the investigation of Scientology, a night at local TV news broadcaster, or the editors at MSNBC.com uploading breaking news to their website are hardly thrilling. Given that the book’s intention is to create informed media consumers, these stories feel like fluff—interesting and compelling but ultimately insubstantial...
...book’s conclusion breaks into an all-too-familiar spiel about the uncertainty of the future of news. The reader is left with nothing more than the repetitive claim that good journalism is crucial to a well-functioning democracy. In shirking blame, the book assigns responsibility to the public: “As long as they [the readers and viewers] create a market for good journalism, there will be good journalism.” Certainly, The News About the News raises important issues about the state of public media in our country, but it fails to resolve them...
...short. Their formal relationship begins in August 1954: “After a long walk down and back the country road beside their house, we started kissing in the darkened hall outside her room…the next day we were quietly a couple.” But the reader soon recognizes Watson’s complete obsession: “Persistent anxieties about Christa, heightened by the tone and decreasing frequency of her letters, were affecting my ability to concentrate either on model-building or preparing for my impending talk at Harvard.” In December 1955, Christa...
...protein. Little background scientific knowledge is necessary: Watson essentially spoon-feeds all relevant information and intersperses these chunks with the arguably more engaging details of his personal life. A helpful “cast of characters” section at the beginning of the book allows the reader to keep track of the many names Watson strews throughout his narrative...