Behind the Front Page

by Broder, David S

• ISBN13: 9780743205504
• ISBN10: 0743205502
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

From Simon & Schuster, Behind the Front Page is David S. Broder's candid look at how the news is made.

The author, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David S. Broder, looks at how the press handled various political stories of the seventies, and discusses the ethical issues faced by journalists—an exploration just as relevant now as it was then.

Author Biography

David S. Broder is the National Political Correspondent and an associate editor of the Washington Post. He was born in 1929 in Illinois and studied at the University of Chicago. He began his newspaper career on the Blooming Daily Pentagraph and began working in Washington in 1955 for Congressional Quarterly. Broder and his wife, Ann, have four sons and live in Arlington, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Clique Journalism	p. 11
Missing the Story
Taken Out of Context	p. 23
Misjudged Characters	p. 50
Plots That Failed	p. 94
Covering the Beats
A Bit of Background	p. 133
From--and by--the White House	p. 148
Reagan's Way--and a Better Way	p. 176
The View from Capitol Hill	p. 208
Campaigns: Horse-race Journalism	p. 238
Campaigns: Who's in Charge Here?	p. 270
Keeping the Trust
Bias--and Other Sins	p. 305
A Journalist's Values	p. 341
Acknowledgments	p. 369
Suggested Reading	p. 371
Index	p. 375
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