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Bad News
Robert Shogan
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Description for Bad News
Paperback. Prize-winning reporter Robert Shogan draws on the lessons of nine presidential elections to assess the power and role of the press in presidential elections. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 449.
Prize-winning reporter Robert Shogan draws on the lessons of nine presidential elections to show where the press goes wrong in the making of the president. The media, Mr. Shogan argues, now play the role of enablers. Without fully realizing it, they allow and abet the abuse of the political process by the candidates and their handlers. Shogan has got it right....Bad News is a wake-up call for journalists everywhere. —Sam Donaldson, ABC News. If there is such a thing as a good book about 'bad news,' this is it. —David S. Broder, Washington Post
Prize-winning reporter Robert Shogan draws on the lessons of nine presidential elections to show where the press goes wrong in the making of the president. The media, Mr. Shogan argues, now play the role of enablers. Without fully realizing it, they allow and abet the abuse of the political process by the candidates and their handlers. Shogan has got it right....Bad News is a wake-up call for journalists everywhere. —Sam Donaldson, ABC News. If there is such a thing as a good book about 'bad news,' this is it. —David S. Broder, Washington Post
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566634700
SKU
V9781566634700
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About Robert Shogan
Robert Shogan has reported on presidential politics for more than thirty years, first for Newsweek, then as national political correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, based in Washington. His work has won the Scribes Book Award and the American Political Science Association prize for distinguished reporting of public affairs. His other books include The Double-Edged Sword, The Fate ... Read more
Reviews for Bad News
A tough, perceptive, and eminently readable account...absolutely essential.
Charles Peters
Washington Monthly
This sets the sad story straight...an institution that has grown in power and yet lost its moorings in a riptide of hucksterism and handlers.
Howard Fineman
Newsweek
Shogan has got it right. This book is a wake-up call for journalists everywhere.
... Read more
Charles Peters
Washington Monthly
This sets the sad story straight...an institution that has grown in power and yet lost its moorings in a riptide of hucksterism and handlers.
Howard Fineman
Newsweek
Shogan has got it right. This book is a wake-up call for journalists everywhere.
... Read more