Warp speed : America in the age of the mixed media / Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kovach, Bill.

Contributor:

Rosenstiel, Tom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Press and politics--United States.

Press and politics.

United States.

Journalism--Political aspects--United States.

Journalism.

Journalism--Political aspects.

United States--Politics and government--1993-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xi, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Century Foundation Press, 1999.

Summary:

Did the coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal set a new low for American journalism? How has news gathering and reporting changed, and what effects has this had on the political and cultural landscape? In this insightful and thoughtful book. Bill Kovach and Tom Rosensted, two of American's leading press watchers, explore the new culture of news what they call the new Mixed Media Culture and show how it works.

Warp Speed describes a world of news in which the speed of delivery is reducing the time for verification, sources are gaining more leverage over the news and argument is overwhelming reporting. The press forced to adhere to the demands of the bottom line and keep its audience. Is straining more and more to find the Big Story to package as a form of entertainment, turning news stories into TV dramas, turning history into a kind of Truman Show. As a result, the role of the press in a self-governing society as undetermined.

Grounded in extensive research. Warp Speed is informed by interview and testimony from the principal journalists when covered this story and the other great scandals of Washington politics. It offers recommendations on how journalists can right slop also as using anonymous sources more responsibly and turning good journalism into good business.

Notes:

"A Century Foundation book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index.

ISBN:

0870784366

0870784374

OCLC:

40925887