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Kill the Messenger tells the story of the tragic death of Gary Webb, the controversial newspaper reporter who committed suicide in December 2004. Webb is the former San Jose Mercury News reporter whose 1996 "Dark Alliance" series on the so-called CIA-crack cocaine connection created a firestorm of controversy and led to his resignation from the paper amid escalating attacks on his work by the mainstream...
Kill the Messenger tells the story of the tragic death of Gary Webb, the controversial newspaper reporter who committed suicide in December 2004. Webb is the former San Jose Mercury News reporter whose 1996 "Dark Alliance" series on the so-called CIA-crack cocaine connection created a firestorm of controversy and led to his resignation from the paper amid escalating attacks on his work by the mainstream...
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Myanmar, shrouded in mystery, misunderstood and isolated for half a century.
After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012, just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a high-risk atmosphere; a life riddled with chaos and confusion as much as it is with wonder and excitement.
Jessica joins a small team of old-hand expat...
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2016 Winner of the Gospel Coalition Book Awards
At the time of his death, Christopher Hitchens was the most notorious atheist in the world. And yet, all was not as it seemed. "Nobody is not a divided self, of course," he once told an interviewer, "but I think it's rather strong in my case." Hitchens was a man of many contradictions: a Marxist in youth who longed for acceptance among the social elites; a peacenik who revered the military;...
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"Del Rincón a los Medios" es la autobiografía del reconocido periodista internacional de la canal de television CNN en español Fernando Del Rincon. Es un presentador multi-nominado y ganador del premio Emmy y también dos veces ganador de "Mejor Presentador de Noticias" por la prestigiosa revista People en español.
Esta narrativa está elaborada desde la perspectiva de Fernando mientras reflexiona sobre su éxito como adulto, y cómo no siempre...
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Good Day! , the critically-acclaimed biography about the legendary Paul Harvey, is now in paperback! In this heartwarming book, author Paul J. Batura tells the all-American story of one of the best-known radio voices in history. From his humble beginnings to his unparalleled career of more than 50 years with ABC radio, Paul Harvey narrated America's story day by day, through wars and peace, through the threat of communism and the crumbling of old...
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Get the Summary of William l. Shirer's Gandhi in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "William L. Shirer's book 'Gandhi' provides a detailed account of Mahatma Gandhi's life, his negotiations with the British for Indian autonomy, and his unique approach to revolution through non-violent resistance, or Satyagraha. Shirer, a journalist, covers Gandhi's efforts to end British colonial rule, which exploited India for centuries,...
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In spite of the near over-load of electronic communication devices which may or may not always have the accurate information that Americans want and need...
There Will Always Be The Need for a "Hometown Newspaper".
These are the vehicles of which necessary information is passed.
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As long as there are local public school athletics, cheer leaders, spelling contests as well as stock show blue ribbon winners distributed.
Community hometown...
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This book will take you from the early days of my life as I re-live it, and you see it through the retrospective mirror of my eyes. Hopefully you will be equally amazed reading this book as I was writing it. I will delve deep into the darkest area of my experiences, from childhood to adulthood, taking you from my earliest days, growing up in New York, and then working as a New York City Transit Cop, through my experience as a New York City Detective....
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With over 25 years of broadcasting experience, Bruce Rainnie has collected stories from every arena He has worked intimately with PEI's legendary broadcaster "Boomer" Gallant as well as many other well known characters from across the country. Bruce did the first TV interview with Sidney Crosby back in 1996 and has remained in contact with him ever since. He also worked closely with Olympic Gold Medalist, Heather Moyse. The book will include these...
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In this collection of articles, Norman Webster takes readers on a journey through his 50-years of newspapering, in Canada, China in the early 1970s, the UK of Maggie Thatcher, and around the world. Webster, a distinguished international journalist, worked at a time when you couldn't rely on Google for your basic facts. You had to go there, look, ask questions. It's old-style reporting from a journalist with a sharp eye for the absurd, as the title...
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Tiene en sus manos un tesoro en formato ligero: nada menos que un resumen de la sabiduría de todos los tiempos. El guía es Víctor Amela, que tras años de lecturas y entrevistas, resume lo mejor que ha encontrado para inspirar su propia vida y lo traslada, sintético y bien contextualizado, a todo tipo de lectores. Aparecen 99 figuras desde Jesucristo hasta Buda o Lao Tse, desde Homero hasta Goethe, desde Jefferson hasta Henry Ford, desde Kant...
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After a lifetime of reporting all over the world, after writing eight thrillers and one unusual cookbook, and after a stint as a university professor, I finally retired. But my muse grabbed hold of me once again and I have written a collection of essays that I hope the reader will savor as much as I savored living them and writing about them. “The Fog of War” tells of a traumatic situation in which I came within seconds of shooting and killing...
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Based on new interviews and never-before-seen archival materials, Woodward and Bernstein takes a fresh, thought-provoking look at this unlikely journalistic duo. Thrown together by fate or luck, Woodward and Bernstein changed the face of journalism and the American presidency. For the first time, Shepard separates myth from reality as she traces the lives of the iconic journalists before and after Watergate.
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Bronze Medalist, 2014 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Autobiography / Memoir I (Celebrity / Political / Romance) category
Bronze Winner, 2013 ForeWord IndieFab Book of the Year Award in the Autobiography & Memoir Category
In this powerful memoir, Harry Rosenfeld describes his years as an editor at the New York Herald Tribune and the Washington Post, two of the greatest American newspapers in the second half of the turbulent twentieth...
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This memoir by Dan Rather is told in a straightforward and conversational voice, and covers all the important moments of his journalistic career, including a frank accounting of his dismissal from CBS, the Abu Ghraib story, the George W. Bush Air National Guard controversy, new insights on the JFK assassination, the origin of "Hurricane Dan" as well as inside stories about all the U.S. Presidents he covered and all the top personalities Dan has either...
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Megyn Kelly's Settle for More by Instaread Preview: In her memoir Settle for More, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly looks back on her life and describes her winding road to fame and the many obstacles she encountered along the way. From her vantage as one of the most-watched newscasters in the country, the 45-year-old journalist blends autobiographical reflection with harrowing accounts of the harassment she experienced at...
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Llegar al mar. Las sílabas imitan la repetición del oleaje y su misterio, anuncian un paisaje entrañable en el horizonte, nos sitúan al pie de una aventura escrita en los espacios en blanco de la vida diaria -esos que la imaginación y la casualidad llenan con
Sorpresas e invenciones. El aniversario personal, la novedad literaria, las presencias que van y vienen a compás de la querencia y la memoria, la relectura de los clásicos, el paseo por...
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When two or more people find sufficient in common to call themselves 'us', they will strengthen their togetherness by looking for a 'them' to dislike.
INDARJIT'S LAW
It's fashionable to talk of 'hate crime' as if a small minority of people are infected with a virus of hate against those they see as different. It is not like that. Prejudice and fear of difference affects us all.
I learnt about my Sikh religion almost as an outsider looking in to...
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Get the Summary of Tom Brokaw's Never Give Up in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Never Give Up" by Tom Brokaw is a rich narrative that intertwines personal anecdotes and historical events, offering a unique perspective on mid-20th-century America. The story begins with the Brokaw family's settlement in South Dakota, where they establish The Brokaw House, a community hub. It follows the life of Red Brokaw, Tom's...
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Alan Weisman has come as close as anyone to unraveling one of the big mysteries of the television age: who is the real Dan Rather? Weisman has devoted much time, energy, and talent to that question, and this book is a fascinating read.
There is no career in modern television journalism that is more fascinating, complicated, controversial, or accomplished than that of Dan Rather, and there is no one who has focused the attention of colleagues, TV...
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