"News Values" is a concise, powerful statement of the fundamental issues, ethical and practical, confronting newspapers today. Jack Fuller not only makes those issues clear, but offers a provocative new perspective on questions journalists should be asking themselves now in order to prepare for tomorrow. "Every talk show host should read this book. So should every newsroom cynic. . . . 'Pursuit of truth is not a license to be a jerk.' In all too many newsrooms, that statement would resound like a three-bell bulletin." Martin F. Nolan, "New York Times Book Review" " "News Values"]...
"News Values" is a concise, powerful statement of the fundamental issues, ethical and practical, confronting newspapers today. Jack Fuller not only ma...
"A brilliant achievement. . . .Like the best work of Greene and Le Carre, it is more than genre fiction; it is literature. . . . "Convergence"] is the most plausible, and perhaps the best spy novel ever written by an American." Arthur Maling, "Chicago Tribune" "An intelligent, readable novel about two kinds of intrigue international and bureaucratic. He succeeds admirably at both tasks." Ross Thomas, "Washington Post" "A solid, provocative first novel about the 'deadly game of espionage' . . . Thoughtfulness and human frailty take precedence over action and suspense. Irony is the...
"A brilliant achievement. . . .Like the best work of Greene and Le Carre, it is more than genre fiction; it is literature. . . . "Convergence"] is the...
Fragments is a story about how war can make everything explosive-even love-and how two friends try to put the pieces of their lives together again. " Fragments] makes the usual semi-autobiographical account of the Vietnam War] . . . seem flimsy and discursive in comparison. . . . The shapeliness and sense of larger design is] so elegantly executed in Fragments."-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "The plot is believable, the characters sharply drawn, the prose clean and distinctive. . . . Stand s] with Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, James...
Fragments is a story about how war can make everything explosive-even love-and how two friends try to put the pieces of their lives together ag...
Across America, newspapers that have defined their cities for over a century are rapidly failing, their circulations plummeting even as opinion-soaked web outlets like the "Huffington Post" thrive. Meanwhile, nightly news programs shock viewers with stories of horrific crime and celebrity scandal, while the smug sarcasm and shouting of pundits like Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann dominate cable television. Is it any wonder that young people are turning away from the news entirely, trusting comedians like Jon Stewart as their primary source of information on current events? In the face...
Across America, newspapers that have defined their cities for over a century are rapidly failing, their circulations plummeting even as opinion-soa...
Across America, newspapers that have defined their cities for over a century are rapidly failing, their circulations plummeting even as opinion-soaked web outlets like the "Huffington Post" thrive. Meanwhile, nightly news programs shock viewers with stories of horrific crime and celebrity scandal, while the smug sarcasm and shouting of pundits like Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann dominate cable television. Is it any wonder that young people are turning away from the news entirely, trusting comedians like Jon Stewart as their primary source of information on current events? In the face...
Across America, newspapers that have defined their cities for over a century are rapidly failing, their circulations plummeting even as opinion-soa...
