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Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
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Bernard Goldberg
An Emmy Award-winning CBS broadcast journalist turns his analytic eye on his own industry in this investigation of broadcast news. Here he suggests that television news is biased toward the political left.
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ESPN: The Uncensored History
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Michael Freeman
Freeman traces the first 24-hour sports network from its inception through its evolution into a slick media outlet reaching more than 60 million homes via more than 26,000 cable providers. This paperback reveals the most recent developments at ESPN since the publication of the first edition, including the network's reactions to the book. 15 photos.
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How to Watch TV News
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Neil Postman, Steve Powers
An important guide to understanding what you're getting--and not getting--from TV news. Postman and Powers warn that anyone who relies exclusively on TV for a knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake and suggest ways to intelligently evaluate TV news shows.
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Tuned to Baseball
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Ernie Harwell
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Broadcast News Handbook: Writing, Reporting, and Producing in a Converging Media World
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C A Tuggle
"Broadcast News Handbook" enables students and professionals to become better writers and better broadcast journalists. Backed by 50 years of combined broadcast journalism experience, the authors provide helpful discussions on crafting language and becoming an effective storyteller. The topics addressed include "Deadly Copy Sins and How to Avoid ...
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Last Great Ride
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Brandon Tartikoff
The inside story of NBC's wonder decade--told by the successful and popular head of programming who personally engineered it all. Tartikoff's anecdotes, observations, and reflections on the industry provide great entertainment. Contains a new afterword by Tartikoff.
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Censored: The Top 25 Censored Stories
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Peter Phillips (Editor), Project Censored (Editor)
The Founding Fathers believed that a free press was essential to a free society and they built that protection into the First Amendment. Even today, there are many who believe that the only thing that keeps us free is a vigorous fourth estate. However, as the number of information outlets increases exponentially, it seems that many stories get ...
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Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound
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David L Yewdall
"Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound" embraces the subject of sound for films. Based on the experience of the author and other top sound craftspeople, this book provides numerous real-life examples and relevant technical data. It also is firmly grounded in practical techniques and it will show you an appreciation of all the processes involved in ...
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Air Words: Writing for Broadcast News
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John Hewitt
This broadcast newswriting workbook and guide provides practice and instruction. It immerses students in writing practice with realistic exercises and grounds students in the fundamentals with explanation and solid examples. It prepares students for the advances and changes that characterize the broadcast news industry today with discussion of ...
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Desperate Networks
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Bill Carter
In a time of sweeping media change, increasingly demanding actors, and pressured executives, the four major networks struggle to become number one. In the process, they provide Carter with a fascinating picture of what really happens on the set and behind closed boardroom doors.
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David Brinkley
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David Brinkley
David Brinkley, icon of the American airwaves, has written his autobiography, a classic American story which overlaps with some of the great events and important personages of the era. From playing poker with Truman to riding the rails with Churchill to walking the beaches with D-Day veterans, readers are privy to some of Brinkley's most priceless ...
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Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
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Jerry Mander
A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous -- to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes -- that TV ought to be eliminated forever. Weaving personal ...
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Operation Iraqi Freedom
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Oliver North
Fresh from his tour as an embedded journalist in Iraq, bestselling author Oliver North reports in living detail, the story of the real Iraq War. Includes 50-minute DVD of "War Stories" episode (FOX News Network) on the War in Iraq.
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This Business of Television
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Howard J Blumenthal, Oliver Goodenough
Broad in scope and rich in detail, "This Business of Television" has been the essential sourcebook for producers, writers, broadcasters, network executives, and other television professionals since the first edition was published in 1991. And as the television business continues to evolve, "This Business of Television" evolves along with it. This ...
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The Billion Dollar Bet: Robert Johnson and the Inside Story of Black Entertainment Television
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Brett Pulley
Praise for "The Billion Dollar BET": 'In a gripping narrative that is both inspirational and cautionary, Brett Pulley tells us how Robert Johnson built Black Entertainment Television into a billion-dollar media empire. In a remarkable feat of reporting, without Johnson's cooperation, Pulley shows what it really takes to get ahead in America today, ...
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We Interrupt This Broadcast
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Joe Garner, Bill Kurtis (Narrator), Walter Cronkite (Foreword by)
This multimedia package records the most sensational moments of the 20th and early 21st centuries, from the Hindenburg disaster to the destruction of New York's World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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Television: The Critical View
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Horace Newcomb (Editor)
Now in its sixth edition and with twenty new selections, "Television: The Critical View" sheds light on everything from the latest prime-time television programs to news, talk shows, and commercials. This well established and critically acclaimed text remains the leading collection of critical essays about America's most important medium of ...
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Naked Pictures of Famous People
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J Stewart
This satiric book--composed of 18 comic essays--mocks several famous personalities, including Bill Clinton, Martha Stewart, Vincent Van Gogh, Adolf Hitler, and Larry King. Several critics have compared this work of wit to the writings of Woody Allen.
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Television Field Production and Reporting
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Frederick Shook
This introduction to the art of visual storytelling is the most contemporary, professionally-oriented book on television field production and reporting on the market. Widely adopted and universally respected, this text is endorsed by the National Press Photographers Association as a resource for college students and working professionals alike.
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We Interrupt This Broadcast with 3 CDs: The Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg Explosion to the Virginia Tech Shooting
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Joe Garner
This updated version features 3 audio CDs with actual broadcasts and includes a new afterword from NBC's Brian Williams.
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Hard News
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Jeffery Deaver
Aspiring filmmaker Rune is paying her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the network's hot newsmagazine show. In the video archives, she finds a taped interview with convicted killer Randy Boggs, proclaiming his innocence. Rune believes him, and rushes to prove he didn't do it. Soon her investigation will plunge her into a case that has her ...
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Portable Video: Eng & Efp
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Norman J Medoff, Tom Tanquary
"Portable Video" focuses on technique and technology for single camera electronic news gathering and electronic field production. Covering everything from basic creative and technical editing techniques to budgets and copyright issues, it is accessible to the home videomaker or amateur and to the professional seeking information on the newest ...
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No Borders: A Journalist's Search for Home
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Jorge del Rayo Ramos
Mexican-American reporter Jorge Ramos writes about his life, both personal and professional, and in particular his career with Univision, the Spanish-language television station based in Los Angeles.
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Television: Critical Methods and Applications
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Jeremy Butler
Television presents students with an understanding of how television constructs meaning and encourages them to incorporate critical thinking into their TV viewing. It provides essential critical and historical context, lucidly explaining how different critical methods have been applied to the medium (e.g., genre study, ideological criticism, ...
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The Age of Missing Information
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Bill McKibben
Fairfax, Virginia, has the most extensive cable system in America. There are 103 channels. One day in May 1990, the author watched all 24 hours of these 103 channels, and what he saw and heard is a funny but frightening picture of American culture and information today.
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