Backstory
作者: Auletta
出版社:Penguin 2004年12月
简介:
America’s foremost analyst of media and journalism, NewYorker columnist and national bestselling author Ken Aulettahas been called the "James Bond of the media world"(BusinessWeek) for his unparalleled access to news sources,keen analysis, smooth writing style, and uncompromising commitmentto his profession. In Backstory, Auletta’s piercing gaze sweepsinto every corner of a subject that has generated tremendous noisebut precious little clear thinking: the state of today’s media.From Howell Raines and the New York Times to Roger Ailes andFox News to the fractious relationship between President Bush andthe press, the essays in Backstory survey the troubledlandscape of the people and institutions who tell Americans what tobelieve. Comprehensive, trenchant, and unflinchingly honest,Backstory is a book that only Ken Auletta could write.