Soft news, hard cash.("Backstory: Inside the Business of News" and "All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News")(Book Review)
American Prospect, The, April, 2004 by Gitlin, Todd
BACKSTORY: INSIDE THE BUSINESS OF NEWS BY KEN AULETTA * PENGUIN * 296 PAGES * $24.95
ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO SELL: HOW THE MARKET TRANSFORMS INFORMATION INTO NEWS BY JAMES T. HAMILTON * PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS * 342 PAGES * $35.00
THERE'S A LOT OF MUTTERING NOWADAYS about the future of a minor, al most wholly owned subsidiary of the entertainment conglomerates that nevertheless fascinates and irritates most readers of this magazine: the news business. With most American newspapers stuck with slowly ebbing circulations during most recent years, and television news ...
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