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Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America

โœ Scribed by McGowan, William

Book ID
107806280
Publisher
Encounter Books
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
210 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781594035326

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โœฆ Synopsis

The New York Times was once considered the gold standard in American journalism and the most trusted news organization in the country. Today, it is widely understood to be a vehicle for politically correct ideologies and tattered liberal pieties, as well as a repeat victim of journalistic scandal and institutional embarrassment.

In Gray Lady Down, the hard-hitting sequel to Coloring the News, award-winning journalist William McGowan asks who is responsible for squandering the finest legacy in American journalism. Combining original reporting with critical analysis, he exposes the Times' unhealthy obsessions with "diversity," pop culture, and countercultural attitudinizing. These trends, he argues, have set America's most important news icon at odds with the values and perspectives of a large sector of the American mainstream, as well as compromising its coverage of such fractious issues as immigration, Islamic terrorism, and war.

Gray Lady Down considers the consequences...

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