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Paul Weaver's commentary on the news media.

Details the rise of political conservatism and its effect on the mass media.

Autobiographical work by journalist Daniell Schorr.

The last of the legendary Edward R. Murrow news team still active in journalism tells of adventures in the McCarthy anti-Communist hearings, Watergate coverage, the CBS bureau in Moscow, and revelations of CIA and FBI misdeeds that brought him before…

From the creator of CNN comes an inside, unauthorized look at one of the great adventure tales of modern media. the tumultuous launch of CNN, the world's first 24-hour, all-news network of photos.

As the presidential campaign of 1992 began, the television networks approached it with dread. The media honchos assumed the public had turned off to politics, George Bush was a shoo-in, and they would earn only blame for whatever they did. They…

This collection of essays includes materials from Rather's weekly newspaper column, his daily [CBS] radio program, and articles written for magazines and newspapers ... Short essays, most written in 1997 and 1998, are grouped in sections on news from…

We're all familiar with the warning, "Don't believe everything you see or hear." Bill Press, the popular co-host of CNN's Crossfire, will have you wondering whether you should believe anything at all.

Journalist Dennis Prager's collection of 43 essays drawn from his quarterly journal entitled Ultimate Issues.

Was AIDS intentionally inflicted upon blacks by whites? Was JFK assassinated as part of an intricate conspiracy? Daniel Pipes traces conspiracy theories through history and convincingly shows how they have been used as common tools of mass…

Drawing on examples both obscure and splashed across the front page, Morrow asks if, ultimately, we can understand evil - or if we even should. From Caligula to Columbine to his encounter with Milosevic, Morrow's stories are drawn from over thirty…

Born illegitimate on New York's Upper West Side, with nothing to recommend her but blonde good looks and a ferocious intelligence, she used sex, street smarts, acid humor, and money to plot a career more improbable than anything in her own fiction…