Shame the Devil
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A highly readable tour through the history of press criticism in the United States from the dawn of the twentieth century through today. Readers will come to understand the true difficulty of achieving objective reporting when reporters must face the pressures exerted by the forces of government, politics, culture, and their own personal worldviews. Anyone who is interested in the history of media or just striving to make sense of a post-truth world will find Shame the Devil a worthwhile read.
» Donald Barclay, author, <i>Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era</i>
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781538174814
- Utgivelsesår
- 2023
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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A highly readable tour through the history of press criticism in the United States from the dawn of the twentieth century through today. Readers will come to understand the true difficulty of achieving objective reporting when reporters must face the pressures exerted by the forces of government, politics, culture, and their own personal worldviews. Anyone who is interested in the history of media or just striving to make sense of a post-truth world will find Shame the Devil a worthwhile read.
» Donald Barclay, author, <i>Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era</i>
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Guglielmo tells the story of the press in the U.S. through the lens of its harshest and often most hopeful critics. In doing so, he offers a compelling portrait of the forces that have shaped the press, the unprecedented challenges facing it today, and the consequences for our democracy.
» Kristin Gilger, co-author, There’s No Crying in Newsrooms: What Women Have Learned About What it Tak
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The audience, the press, and American society have had a wary interdependence far beyond today’s cries of “fake news.” Through biography and close readings of press critics representing 100 years of thought, Guglielmo sheds light on that relationship and offers a broad set of lenses for understanding media today.
» Amanda Sturgill, author, Detecting Deception: Tools to Fight Fake News