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Those who Brought Us The Financial News
Written by an author who was there, working for many major business publishers in the 1960s,70s,80s, ending with an observation on Clinton, this is an outstanding story, naming names and evaluating major business publications as Fortune, Forbes, Wall St. Journal, NY Times business section. It should be a must read for any journalism student or business major. The construction is a bit unusual as it provides excerpts from specific publications in an appendix including John Maynard Keynes writing in The Saturday Evening Post. ... Read more

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Title: Top business news: South-Central Indiana update.
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Title: Around the north.(NEWS)
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America’s foremost analyst of media and journalism, New Yorker columnist and national bestselling author Ken Auletta has been called the "James Bond of the media world" (BusinessWeek) for his unparalleled access to news sources, keen analysis, smooth writing style, and uncompromising commitment to his profession. In Backstory, Auletta’s piercing gaze sweeps into every corner of a subject that has generated tremendous noise but precious little clear thinking: the state of today’s media. From Howell Raines and the New York Times to Roger Ailes and Fox News to the fractious relationship between President Bush and the press, the essays in Backstory survey the troubled landscape of the people and institutions who tell Americans what to believe. Comprehensive, trenchant, and unflinchingly honest, Backstory is a book that only Ken Auletta could write. ... Read more

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McCandlish Phillips.The Reporter Who Disappeared
Hands down the best article, in fact alone worth the price of the book is Auletta's look at McCandlish Phillips, the superstar reporter for the NY TIMES who walked away from the paper for a preaching ministry in 1973. Identified by Gay Talese as the only reporter he thought was above him at the TIMES, Phillips's gift was combining factual accuracy with penetrating human interest insights. Auletta moves from Phillips beginnings, to his breaking of his biggest stories, to his self-conscious move into near poverty and total obscurity. Unthinkable that any media star would do that then, even more so today, Auletta brings to the forefront the fact that Phillips is all the happier and content for the change. Brilliant, insightful reporting.

Good quality and a good book
This was the only book out of 7 that I actually enjoyed reading in my rhetoric class.

Quite dated but retains some value
Although Auletta often displays a sprightly prose style, this book is sadly dated. This is good magazine journalism, that's all -- nota collection of personal essays with a distinctive voice. The reader often feels as if he is reading a three-year-old issue of the New Yorker, which is probably what he is doing.

Backstory does have the ironic virtue of freezing for all time some of the ephemeral visions of the brief dot-com era. The chapter on Inside.com, where all too much good money was chasing all too many bad ideas, is worth the book's cover price. The media and business worlds have moved on since then, for better and for worse, but one can occasionally find some pleasure in recalling the "next big thing" as perceived in the year 2000.

Get Me Rewrite!
This collection of articles, most originally published in The New Yorker, paint an interesting inside look at some of the more powerful big media players. Unfortunately, most of the material is outdated, having been superceded by events such as Tribune Co.'s acquisition of Times-Mirror, the forced resignation of Howell Raines at the New York Times after the Jason Blair scandal and the emergence of Fox as a one-sided cable news operation no longer bothering to masquerade as objective. Auletta stitches the pieces together with a few short paragraphs between each one, attempting to bring the reader up to date. Had he taken more than the few minutes of time which writing that material must have consumed and attempted to revise his old articles a bit more, the worth of his collection might have been improved. As it stands, it's already a period piece.

A Compelling Analysis of Contemporary News Media
Frequent readers of The New Yorker are already familiar with Auletta's brilliant essays on the news media. What we have here in this volume are several of his best, all but one of which previously appeared in that magazine. Specific subjects include the Howell Raines "doctrine" during his tenure at the New York Times, Mark H. Willes' major reorganization of that newspaper, initiatives within the Tribune Company to achieve organizational synergies, the "tabloid wars" waged by the New York Daily News and the New York Post, Arthur M. Sulzberger, Jr.'s "Outward Bound Adventure" at the New York Times, a profile of John McCandlish Phillips, Jr. ("the reporter who disappeared"), an explanation of how and why "fee speech" could corrupt "journalism's claim to public trust," a profile of Don Imus, an examination of the life and death of Inside.com, and an analysis of the creation, emergence, and impact of Fox News.

However, Auletta's primary objective is to answer questions such as these:

1. What is the proper role of the news media?
2. How has that role changed during the last decade? Why?
3. What are the nature and extent of the impact of business considerations on the selection, articulation, and provision of news?

Auletta's thinking and writing have exceptional rigor, focus, and clarity. Yes, we learn a great deal about the individuals and organizations on which he focuses in this volume but its much greater value (to me) is derived from his thoughtful and eloquent responses to the questions posed earlier.
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