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Title Into the buzzsaw : leading journalists expose the myth of a free press / edited by Kristina Borjesson ; foreword by Gore Vidal.

Imprint Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2002.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  323.445 In8    ---  Available
Description 392 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Price of liberty / Gerard Colby -- Fox, the hounds, and the sacred cows / Jane Akre -- Silence of the lambs : an American in journalistic exile / Greg Palast -- Shouting at the crocodile / Maurice Murad -- Into the buzzsaw / Kristina Borjesson -- Coal mine canaries / David E. Hendrix -- When black becomes white / Philip Weiss -- Stories we love, stories we hate / Helen Malmgren -- Story no one wanted to hear / J. Robert Port -- Dream job / April Oliver -- Verdict first, evidence later : the case for Bobby Garwood / Monika Jensen-Stevenson -- Let's blow up our brand : the dangerous course of today's broadcast newsrooms / Karl Idsvoog -- Mainstream media : the drug war's shills / Michael Levine -- Mighty Wurlitzer plays on / Gary Webb -- Crimes and silence : the CIA's criminal acts and the media's silence / John Kelly -- What happened to good old-fashioned muckraking? / Carl Jensen -- Light that won't go out / Brant Houston -- Rise and fall of professional journalism / Robert McChesney.
Subject Freedom of the press.
Press -- Corrupt practices
Mass media -- Corrupt practices
Added Author Borjesson, Kristina.
ISBN 1573929727 (alk. paper)

 
    
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