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2023.
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"Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in the land, for better or worse. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. For almost three decades, Fox News has not only made political careers (see: President Donald J. Trump) but also fundamentally altered the political landscape of the United States. It is a truism: as Fox goes, so goes the...
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[2006]
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Takes place in the 1950's America, during the early days of broadcast journalism. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to...
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As an embedded journalist in Iraq, North got a soldier's-eye-view - often while under fire - of what mainstream media failed to report. A decorated combat veteran, he watched Operation Iraqi Freedom with trained eyes unmatched by other journalists. What he witnessed compelled him to challenge post-war critics of the operation for their uninformed and deceptive views.
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[2022]
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"Cary Poarch started working at CNN in the summer of 2017 as a die-hard Bernie Sanders supporter. But on his first location shoot during the Charlottesville riots, he quickly became disillusioned with how the network created the “fine people” hoax. This began a political odyssey as he documented numerous incidents of outright bias, eventually leading him to contact James O’Keefe of Project Veritas. For months, Cary Poarch documented CNN’s...
7) Network
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A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a network news anchorman turns the tables on the "ratings."
11) TV reporters
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[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Introduces the dress, tools, education, and work of television reporters and their importance to the community.
12) Truth
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Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the ensuing firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers.
On the morning of September 9, 2004, veteran CBS News producer Mary Mapes believed she had every reason to feel proud of a broadcast journalism job well done. By the end of the day, Mapes, CBS News, and the venerable CBS News...
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In this provocative book, one of the most experienced and learned of American foreign corrrespondents places at the feet of inadequate television news coverage the responsiblity for the disastrous turn in U.S. foreign policy. It is a must-read volume that fleshes out the already tumultuous history of the twenty
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2010
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This book examines the critical debates on news reporting, discussing an ever-changing technological environment, the impact of the Internet, the loss of journalism professionals through newspaper cutbacks, separation of government and media, journalistic principles, and more.
18) Face the nation: my favorite stories from the first 50 years of the award-winning news broadcast
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[2004]
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Clips from the Face the nation televsion program beginning with the first program on November 7, 1954 through the war in Iraq.
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2017.
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The executive producer of 60 Minutes tells the inside story of the legendary program, from its almost accidental birth through five decades of in-depth reporting by talented producers and beloved correspondents, including Harry Reasoner, Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Ed Bradley, Lesley Stahl, Steve Kroft and others.
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c2008
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Ambitions in scope, American Heroes details the earliest terrorism faced by the United States in the 1800s at the hands of the Barbary Pirates, the major terrorist group developments of the 1970s and 80s, and, most vividly, the post-9/11 Iraq War era. Most inspiringly, North's up-close field notes highlight the core values of today's American soldier in relation to the fight at hand.