The News at Any Cost

[VirginiaHuguenot]

As we all know the media act as information gatekeepers in our society. An excellent behind the scenes expose into this phenomenon is The News at Any Cost (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985) by Tom Goldstein, a former reporter for the New York Times. If you want to learn why "journalistic ethics" has become an oxymoron, this is a good book to read.

Chapter titles include the following:

Journalists for the Prosecution
Journalists as Unacknowledged Legislators
Being There: Journalists as Eyewitnesses
Being Someone Else: Journalists Who Masquerade
Inside Stories: What the Public Isn't Told
None of This Is Made Up: Faking and Plagiarism
Lost Credibility: Mistakes and Corrections
Thin Skins: When Journalists Become the Story

 

[VirginiaHuguenot]

Another current example of "journalistic ethics":

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/10/chattanooga.paper.ap/index.html

 

[ReformedWretch]

Our daughter wants to be a news castor/anchor. She has an internship starting in January at a local station!

Maybe I will get her this book.