海倫·托馬斯曾長期任白宮記者團團長,有美國“新聞界第一夫人”之稱。她一生中獲得過30多種新聞榮譽奬項,1998年,她成為白宮記者協會以她名字命名的奬項“海倫·托馬斯終身成就奬”的首位獲得者。她是《來自白宮的報道》《白宮前沿》《感謝那些記憶,總統先生!》的作者。目前,她往在美國華盛頓特區,是赫斯特報係的專欄作傢。
In the course of more than sixty years spent covering Washington politics, Helen Thomas has witnessed a raft of fundamental changes in the way news is gathered and reported. Gone are the days of frequent firsthand contact with the president. Now, the press sees the president only at tightly controlled and orchestrated press conferences. In addition, Thomas sees a growing -- and alarming -- reluctance among reporters to question government spokesmen and probe for the truth. The result has been a wholesale failure by journalists to fulfill what is arguably their most vital role in contemporary American life -- to be the watchdogs of democracy. Today's journalists, according to Thomas, have become subdued, compromised lapdogs.
Here, the legendary journalist and bestselling author delivers a hard-hitting manifesto on the precipitous decline in the quality and ethics of political reportage -- and issues a clarion call for change. Thomas confronts some of the most significant issues of the day, including the jailing of reporters, the conservative swing in television news coverage, and the administration's increased insistence on "managed" news. But she is most emphatic about reporters' failure to adequately question President George W. Bush and White House spokesmen about the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, and on subjects ranging from homeland security to the economy. This, she insists, was a dire lapse.
Drawing on her peerless knowledge of journalism, Washington politics, and nine presidential administrations, as well as frank interviews with leading journalists past and present, Thomas provides readers with a rich historical perspective on the roots of American journalism, the circumstances attending the rise and fall of its golden age, and the nature and consequences of its current shortcomings. The result is a powerful, eye-opening discourse on the state of political reportage -- as well as a welcome and inspiring demand for meaningful and lasting reform.
發表於2024-11-27
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這是一本值得緻敬的書。除瞭感謝作者,這位曾經的白宮記者團團長,美國“新聞界第一夫人”,還必須對翻譯、編輯以及齣版社等相關人員錶示敬意。此書的齣版給瞭如今浮躁的媒體一針清醒劑,它重新確定瞭一個真正的記者應該遵循的準則:“使公眾享有知情權。為瞭尋求事實真相,在...
評分這是一本值得緻敬的書。除瞭感謝作者,這位曾經的白宮記者團團長,美國“新聞界第一夫人”,還必須對翻譯、編輯以及齣版社等相關人員錶示敬意。此書的齣版給瞭如今浮躁的媒體一針清醒劑,它重新確定瞭一個真正的記者應該遵循的準則:“使公眾享有知情權。為瞭尋求事實真相,在...
評分媒體和媚體隻有半字之差,卻有天壤之彆。做媒體還是做媚體,取決於從業者內心是否有職業良知。 ——南方報業傳媒集團副總編輯 江藝平 一部發人深省的著作。作者讓我們突然意識到,一種偉大的傳統是如何淪喪的——淪喪在很短的時間裏,在各...
評分媒體和媚體隻有半字之差,卻有天壤之彆。做媒體還是做媚體,取決於從業者內心是否有職業良知。 ——南方報業傳媒集團副總編輯 江藝平 一部發人深省的著作。作者讓我們突然意識到,一種偉大的傳統是如何淪喪的——淪喪在很短的時間裏,在各...
評分名頭很響,標題也很響。 但是書裏基本上隻是在講一些常識到不行的觀點, 佐證也都是熟悉到不行的一些大事件。 水門、越戰、伊拉剋、911、普拉姆等等,反復齣現, 而且作者基本上很少提及自己在這些事件中親曆的部分, 隻是大而化之的講一些事件進程,談談諸如總統、默羅、彼得...
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A book by Helen Thomas, the vetern and legendary White House correspondent. Watchdog journalism is in decline, and today's generation are not poking the gov as their precedents used to do in the 1960s and 70s.
評分A book by Helen Thomas, the vetern and legendary White House correspondent. Watchdog journalism is in decline, and today's generation are not poking the gov as their precedents used to do in the 1960s and 70s.
評分A book by Helen Thomas, the vetern and legendary White House correspondent. Watchdog journalism is in decline, and today's generation are not poking the gov as their precedents used to do in the 1960s and 70s.
評分A book by Helen Thomas, the vetern and legendary White House correspondent. Watchdog journalism is in decline, and today's generation are not poking the gov as their precedents used to do in the 1960s and 70s.
評分A book by Helen Thomas, the vetern and legendary White House correspondent. Watchdog journalism is in decline, and today's generation are not poking the gov as their precedents used to do in the 1960s and 70s.
Watchdogs of Democracy? 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載