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Feet to the fire, the media after 9/11 : top journalists speak out, edited by Kristina Borjesson

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Feet to the fire

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edited by Kristina Borjesson

"Focusing on the post-9/11 period, this masterful collection beginning with a pull-no-punches interview with ABC: News veteran Ted Koppel and ending with a scaring phone interview with Knight Ridder's Tom Lasserter from Baghdad unveils a journalistic environment that rivals any long-running soap opera on TV. Filled with astonishing personal stories, conflict, and drama, Feet to the Fire gives readers the rare opportunity to walk a mile in the shoes of powerful journalists and news executives and experience their highly stressful environments." "With each new and revealing interview, Borjesson gathers devastating details from national security and intelligence reporters, White House journalists, Middle East experts, war correspondents, and others. Like pieces of a terrible puzzle, these conversations combine to provide a hair-raising view of the mechanisms by which the truth has been manufactured post 9/11. The assembled puzzle also shows how ordinary Americans have played key roles along with the press and the government in perpetuating the deception. Feet to the Fire is an unprecedented and deeply disturbing insider's report on how diverse factious within our society have collaborated and clashed to bring about profound change."--Jacket

the media after 9/11 : top journalists speak out

Crisis coverage and the candy bar imperative / Ted Koppel -- The view from inside the ratings vise / Tom Yellin -- Chasing eyeballs and remembering Jessica Lynch / Tom Curley -- Everybody wants to be at Versailles / John MacArthur -- Grande dame, persona non grata / Helen Thomas -- Inside the house of power : a gatherer of unmanaged glimpses / Ron Suskind -- The revolution is being televised : you just don't want to believe what you're seeing / Paul Krugman -- Accountability's coroner / Barton Gellman -- Guerrilla at the Washington post / Walter Pincus -- Sound bite's truth / David Martin -- Dangerous nonsense and the Nuremberg rule / James Bamford -- Maverick foxhound, shadow-barking / John Walcott -- "The Vice President is lying," and other things the Deep Throats said / Jonathan Landay/Warren Strobel -- Blogger hits the hundredth monkey phase / Juan Cole -- Democracy and Islam : the dreams and nightmares / Anthony Shadid -- "It's mine, the whole Goddammed story is mine!" / Peter Arnett -- "What do you mean you're telling them to kill me?" / Jon Alpert -- Democracy and Islam: dreams and nightmares / Anthony Shadid -- "It's mine, the whole goddamned story is mine!" / Peter Arnot -- "We're not Mother Teresas in flak jackets" / Chris Hedges -- Marhaba Keefik! : "Two American soldiers died today" / Deborah Amos -- "You have two ears and one mouth, so you should listen twice as much as you speak" / Hannah Allam -- "Omar, what's going on?" / Tom Lasseter