Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers - Softcover

Kurtz, Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812963563 ISBN 13: 9780812963564

Publisher: Three Rivers Press, 1994

Synopsis

Named America's Best Media Reporter by the American Journalism Review

Revised and Updated Updated with a New Introducton by the Author

From his front-row seat as the press critic for The Washington Post, Howard Kurtz has chronicled the press's sorry record in covering news, politics, and scandal. In Media Circus he takes readers behind the scenes to show how newspapers have bungled so many important stories, from the Gulf, War and Gennifer Flowers to Clarence Thomas and Zoe Baird, including a new chapter -- specially written for this edition -- on the roller-coaster coverage of the Clinton White House. Taking on sacred cows, even in his own newsroom, Kurtz leaves no doubt why he is regarded as the best on his beat.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"Kurtz has written a valuable and powerful book about a newspaper industry in trouble. We have focused so much in recent years on television that we've forgotten the dwindling power of newspapers to inform, excite, and comfort the public. Kurtz has corrected this growing imbalance in our knowledge and appreciation of 'the press.'"--Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard University

From the Back Cover:

"Howard Kurtz is a journalist of unassailable independence and integrity. Read this book and learn why."

-- Ken Auletta, author of Three Blind Mice

"When the Washington Post set ace investigative reporter Howard Kurtz loose on the media beat, it was like giving Bart Simpson the run of the principal's office. The prolific and irrepressible Kurtz has had a merry time mucking around inside the thin-skinned press establishment."

-- Carl Sessions Stepp, American Journalism Review

"Kurtz is a direct, clear, often funny writer who doesn't pull his punches or hide his own views."

-- Michael Stern, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"Media Circus is about as blunt as a punch in the nose -- and as hard to ignore."

-- Dan Rather, CBS News

About this edition

• Publisher: Three Rivers Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0812963563
• ISBN 13: 9780812963564
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 434