ENGLISH

The Press

By A. J. Liebling

Book information

Publisher
Ballantine Books
Year
1964
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12965931 bytes)
Pages
293\298
Time added
2021-09-22 17:45:32

Description

Caustic, informed - often hilarious - this survey of the omissions, distortions and downright fiction in our newspapers may well be the best book ever written about the American press Foreword: The End of Free Lunch - 3 1. Toward a One-Paper Town A Free Press? - 15 Do You Belong in Journalism? - 26 The Big Decision - 35 Toward a One-Paper Town - 43 Dismally - 52 2. The Deserving Rich Horsefeathers Swathed in Mink - 79 The Great Gouamba - 90 The Impossible Headline - 98 Inflamed, But Cool - 107 Notes and Comment - 119 3. Press Mess The M.B.I. - 126 Goodbye, M.B.I. - 134 Spotlight on the Jury - 144 4. Innocence At Home The Colonel Looks on Marathon - 167 Two Pounds for a Dime - 177 The Pretzels - 193 Antepenultimatum - 194 Miracle in Palermo - 200 Double Free - 202 The Rubber-Type Army - 203 The Rubber-Type Army--A Postscript - 209 Notes and Comment - 219 5. No-News Death on the One Hand - 226 More News Behind the News - 239 6. Not Too Lopsided Eden Must Go--Or Must He? - 258 The Coast Recedes - 267 New York Revisited - 276 Spot News About the Leopard - 285

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