Come to Think of It: Notes on the Turn of the Millennium - Hardcover

Schorr, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670018732 ISBN 13: 9780670018734

Publisher: Viking Adult, 2007

Synopsis

A volume of unstinting political observations by an analyst for NPR's All Things Considered and Weekend Edition covers such topics as the war in Iraq, health care, and the U.N. report on climate change.

About this title

About the Author:

Daniel Schorr has been covering politics in print and on television and radio for more than a half century. Currently senior news analyst at National Public Radio, he has won three Emmy awards, a Peabody Award, and the DuPont–Columbia University Golden Baton, the most prestigious award in broadcasting.

From Publishers Weekly:

Originally broadcast on NPR from 1991 onward, this collection of news commentary from renowned veteran reporter Schorr succeed in two ways: as vivid snapshots of recent history, and the reaction to it, in America and abroad; and as canny evidence of how little really changes in a decade and a half. The author (Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism) and NPR senior news analyst tackles déjà vu-inducing topics like dissatisfaction over the Iraq policy of President Bush in the early '90s (a chief executive "who attends orchestrated events and expresses what sounds like orchestrated empathy"), and a Clinton presidential campaign facing character issues and a "gotcha" press mentality. In the years since, the repeat Emmy and Peabody award winner takes aim at issues large and small (Waco, the Unabomber, terrorism, abortion, the "State of Peace on Earth"), and especially the changing nature of the news business, including eulogies to industry greats (Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, New York Times editor Abe Rosenthal), coverage analysis (the O.J. trial, Monica Lewinsky) and the erosion of the first amendment. The short pieces that populate this volume offer shrewd, sure assessment that makes great bite-sized reading for any fan of politics, Schorr or NPR news.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0670018732
• ISBN 13: 9780670018734
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400