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Author Stossel, John.

Title Give me a break : how I exposed hucksters, cheats, and scam artists and became the scourge of the liberal media / John Stossel.

Imprint New York : HarperCollins, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  320.512 St76g 2004    ---  Available
 FSCC Non-Fiction  302.2345 Sto 2004    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 294 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note Includes index.
Contents What happened to Stossel? -- Confrontations -- Confusion -- Epiphany -- Scaring ourselves to death -- Junk science and junk reporting -- Government -- Welfare for the rich -- The trouble with lawyers -- The left takes notice -- It's not my fault! -- But what about the poor? -- Greed or ambition? -- Owning your body -- Free speech.
Summary Stossel explains how ambitious bureaucrats, intellectually lazy reporters, and greedy lawyers make your life worse even as they claim to protect your interests.
Subject Television broadcasting -- Social aspects.
Mass media and culture.
Journalism -- Objectivity.
Libertarianism.
ISBN 0060529148 : $24.95

 
    
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