Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Journalism : a most honorable profession -- Eruptions of corruption -- Presidents & reporters : never the twain shall meet -- Press secretaries : in the bull's-eye -- Spinning the news -- Hail to the heroic leakers and whistle-blowers : and the journalists who protect them -- Newspapers are a business, too -- The FCC : fair and balanced? -- Lapdogs of the press -- Foreign correspondents in Iraq : deja vu all over again! -- The greatest American journalists of our times -- Epilogue -- Index.
