Into The Buzzsaw Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press

by Borjesson, Kristina

• ISBN13: 9781591022305
• ISBN10: 1591022304
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Prometheus
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Summary

WINNER: National Press Club's Arthur Rowse Award for Press CriticismLeading journalists from Fox News, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, newspapers, and other outlets-including Dan Rather, Ashleigh Banfield, Robert McChesney, Greg Palast, Pulitzer Prize and Emmy winners, and more-recount the press censorship they experienced in the wake of 9/11 security concerns. With a foreword by Gore Vidal and edited by former CBS and CNN producer Kristina Borjesson, this highly acclaimed anthology has been described as "fascinating and disturbing," "uplifting" and "infuriating," and a "penetrating collection of powerful essays." The original edition won the National Press Club's Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism and was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the most extraordinary titles of 2002.

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(4)
Gore Vidal
Acknowledgments	13	(2)
Editor's Introduction	15	(20)
The Patriot and the Censor's Necklace: An Interview with BBC Culture Correspondent Madeleine Holt	35	(8)
Dan Rather
The Memo	43	(4)
Charles Reina
A Shot Messenger's Observations	47	(14)
Ashleigh Banfield
The War on Terror and the Great Game for Oil: How the Media Missed the Context	61	(32)
Charlotte Dennett
The Price of Liberty	93	(22)
Gerard Colby
Crimes and Silence: The CIA's Criminal Acts and the Media's Silence	115	(26)
John Kelly
The Mighty Wurlitzer Plays On	141	(16)
Gary Webb
Mainstream Media: The Drug War's Shills	157	(38)
Michael Levine
The Silence of the Lambs: An American in Journalistic Exile	195	(12)
Greg Palast
The Fox, the Hounds, and the Sacred Cows	207	(32)
Jane Akre
The Story No One Wanted to Hear	239	(14)
J. Robert Port
Verdict First, Evidence Later: The Case for Bobby Garwood	253	(30)
Monika Jensen-Stevenson
Into the Buzzsaw	283	(48)
Kristina Borjesson
Coal Mine Canaries	331	(32)
David E. Hendrix
When Black Becomes White	363	(14)
Philip Weiss
Stories We Love, Stories We Hate	377	(12)
Helen Malmgren
Shouting at the Crocodile	389	(28)
Maurice Murad
What Happened to Good Old-Fashioned Muckraking?	417	(18)
Carl Jensen
The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism	435	(20)
Robert McChesney
Index	455