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Pulitzer Prize winner Rosenberg teams with veteran journalist Feldman to argue that the 24-hour news cycle has degraded the news media and failed consumers in this indignant, often reactionary examination. The authors' premise, that a demand for a constant flow of information via the Internet and cable news networks has led to inaccuracies in reporting, is a popular refrain and one with merit. The many quotes the authors have collected from media giants such as Jim Lehrer and Arianna Huffington present the challenges facing news outlets as changing technologies, most notably the Internet, interact with traditional media. However, the book's heavy-handed editorializing and unfocused gaze muddle the argument, and the many regressions into finger pointing and personal attacks seem out of place amongst such serious considerations. While the authors' ultimate conclusion-that consumer literacy is the best defense against biased and untrustworthy news-is well-taken, flippant dismissals of bloggers (referred to as "nimble-fingered Crackerjacks"), multi-media reporting and alternative news sources undermine this larger point and don't provide any new answers.
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*Starred Review* The breezy style of this critique belies the incredible research behind it, as Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Rosenberg and investigative journalist Feldman explore the impact of the amped-up, overwrought nature of modern news gathering. The authors talked to a wide range of reporters, including Arianna Huffington, Jim Lehrer, Tom Brokaw, and others, from sources as divergent as CNN News, the Drudge Report, and Access Hollywood, to present a look at the competitive forces at work in speeding news coverage at the cost of accuracy, never mind insight and reflection. Amid predictions that politics this year is moving at the speed of the Internet, with the blogosphere kicking around reaction to campaign news that has yet to make it onto television, Rosenberg and Feldman worry that the speed of news gathering is shaping the news, and not for the better. They offer a history of increasingly speedy news coverage from newsreels to radio and television to the Internet, as well as a diary of blogging and an absorbing dialogue between the two as they look back over their own careers and experiences. Often humorous, completely engrossing. --Vanessa Bush
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