Title

News and the culture of lying

Description

Paul Weaver's commentary on the news media.

Notes on front endpaper: Pulitzer. Brooklyn Bridge. Purse potentates. Chris Argyris's study-137. U of Michigan 1993. Self scripting. Underlinings/notes: Underlinings: Focus on relationship of newsmakers to reporters, loss of truth, fabrication, lying. Looks at Johnson's pledge of no wider war, Kennedy's faux missile gap. American distrust of politicians/journalists, Lamb notes Joseph Pulitzer's rise, accomplishments, and his impact on journalism and the evolution of the modern press and its relationship to politics.. Notes: "Fabrications," "Lying," "Gramm-Rudman-Hollings," "vinyl chloride, everyone was lying," "worker's survival companies survival," "group think," "culture of lying," "contrived statements," "unctuous pretensions of anchormen," "corporations lobby for government intervention," "Depression reverse of the truth," "Ear in Wash Post about Carter & Reagan," "1st important book about media," "no media basher," "Public relations began 1890," "Jeffrey Tulis on Wilson," "Wilson became P thru Pulitzer," "politics of news," "Harding coined 'Founding Fathers," "Walter Lippmann N.Y. Times Bolshevik revolution," "70s changes in House and Senate," "low regard for moral character of press," "newsmaker controls terms of story," "Clinton in front of Vietnam memorial," "newsmakers loathe the press."

Identifier

491117

29340217

Creator

Weaver, Paul

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1994

Program air date: September 4, 1994

Publisher

Free Press

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Subject

"Journalism--Objectivity--United States."

"Government and the press--United States."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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