Feeding the beast: the White House versus the press

Avoiding single-minded laments on the shortcomings of the presidency or the failings of the press, Feeding the Beast is an evenhanded though often damning critique of the relationship between the White House and the news media, a relationship that can create more problems than it solves. For an info...

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Main Author: Walsh, Kenneth T. 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Random House 1996
Edition:1. ed.
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Summary:Avoiding single-minded laments on the shortcomings of the presidency or the failings of the press, Feeding the Beast is an evenhanded though often damning critique of the relationship between the White House and the news media, a relationship that can create more problems than it solves. For an informed electorate and an enlightened citizenry, few institution are more important than the presidency and the mainstream media, and here Kenneth T. Walsh, a senior White House correspondent for U.S
News & World Report, candidly reports how ordinary citizens are the biggest losers in the current state of affairs. The widespread practice of "spin doctoring," the willingness on the part of the White House to mislead the press, overly interpretive reporting, and "gotcha" journalism do more to distort reality than illuminate it
Physical Description:X, 340 S.
ISBN:0679442901

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