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Breaking The News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy Paperback – January 14, 1997
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"Important and lucid...It moves smartly beyond the usual attacks on sensationalism and bias to the more profound problems in modern American journalism...dead-on."--Newsweek
- Print length352 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJanuary 14, 1997
- Dimensions5.19 x 0.8 x 8 inches
- ISBN-109780679758563
- ISBN-13978-0679758563
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- Publisher : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; 1st Vintage Bks Ed., Jan. 1997 edition (January 14, 1997)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 352 pages
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There's nothing terribly new in Fallows' book in that probably every point he makes has been made elswhere. What is valuable about the book is that it pulls a lot of the criticisms of contemporary news coverage into a comprehensive critique of the news business.
Sadly, one despairs of any improvement given the wide denial -- well documented by Fallows -- by prominent members of the elite media of any problem with the way they cover and select the news.
This book ought to be required reading for all journalists and anyone who cares deeply about the coverage of the news and its effect on our political system. It's hard to imagine any of our prominent journalists changing their views on this subject given the strong institutional instinct to defend their current practices. The only hope it seems to me is that a new generation of journalists will eschew the misguided practices of their peers and create a new journalism that is less self-centered, less self-serving and more useful to most Americans.
The paperback edition of the book, which I read, was published shortly after Fallows had assumed the reins at US News. It would be interesting to see a follow up to this book in a few years in which Fallows shares with us his experiences in trying to implement his advocacy of "civic journalism" in real life. I suspect that it's a lot harder than Fallows suspects.

