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050	0	0	_aPN4867 _b.A94 2003
082	0	0	_a071.309 AUL
100	1		_aAuletta, Ken
245	1	0	_aBackstory _b: inside the business of news _c/ Ken Auletta
260			_aNew York _b: Penguin Press _c, 2003
300			_a296 p. _c; 24 cm.
500			_aIncludes index
520			_aBackstory , Ken Auletta explores why one of America's most important industries is also among its most troubled. He travels from the proud New York Times , the last outpost of old-school family ownership, whose own personnel problems make headline news, into the depths of New York City's brutal tabloid wars and out across the country to journalism's new wave, chains like the Chicago Tribune 's, where "synergy" is ever more a mantra. He probes the moral ambiguity of "media personalities"-journalists who become celebrities themselves, padding their incomes by schmoozing with Imus and rounding the lucrative corporate lecture circuit. He reckons with the legacy of journalism's past and the different prospects for its future, from fallen stars of new media such as Inside.com to the rising star of cable news, Roger Ailes's Fox News.
650		0	_aJournalism _x--United States
650		4	_aHistory, Modern _x--20th century
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