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Health care journalism / by Dakers, Diane,author.(CARDINAL)501128;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Investigating health -- Painkiller profiteers -- At death's door -- Unsafe at any level."This timely book describes the details of three real case studies of investigative journalism about health care. Stories include journalists exposing wrongdoing by drug companies, neglect of dying patients in by hospice home-care providers, and lead-poisoning from drinking water in Flint, Michigan. Readers will gain an understanding of the research process, the ethical standards journalists must follow, and the perseverance required to confirm a story and affect change"--Grades 4-6.Age 10-14+.1080LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Case studies.; Journalism, Medical; Medical care; Public health; Health in mass media; Investigative reporting; Medical care; Public health; Reporters and reporting; Medical care.;

Clash : presidents and the press in times of crisis / by Marshall, Jon,1963-Author(DLC)no2010095444;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-395) and index.Introduction : the president and the peculiar press conference -- John Adams and the imprisoned press -- Abraham Lincoln and the power of an advocating press -- Woodrow Wilson, presidential propaganda, and the suppression of the press -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the power of new media -- Richard Nixon and the making of enemies -- Ronald Reagan and the taming of the press -- Bill Clinton and the scandalized press -- George W. Bush and the war on truth -- Barack Obama and the fragmented media -- Donald Trump and the art of the lie -- Donald Trump and the year of crises -- Presidents and the crisis of the press.""Clash" describes the powerful political, technological, economic, and social forces that shape the relationship between presidents and the press and how that relationship shapes public opinion. Jon Marshall argues that journalists today have a duty to the public to report authentically - American democracy depends on it"--.
Subjects: Presidents; Press and politics; Mass media;

Trainwreck : the women we love to hate, mock, and fear ... and why / by Doyle, Jude Ellison S.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.She's everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She's Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, "crack is whack," and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself. From Mary Wollstonecraft-who, for decades after her death, was more famous for her illegitimate child and suicide attempts than for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman-to Charlotte Brontë, Billie Holiday, Sylvia Plath, and even Hillary Clinton, Sady Doyle's Trainwreck dissects a centuries-old phenomenon and asks what it means now, in a time when we have unprecedented access to celebrities and civilians alike, and when women are pushing harder than ever against the boundaries of what it means to "behave." Where did these women come from? What are their crimes? And what does it mean for the rest of us? For an age when any form of self-expression can be the one that ends you, Sady Doyle's book is as fierce and intelligent as it is funny and compassionate-an essential, timely, feminist anatomy of the female trainwreck.
Subjects: Women in mass media.; Celebrities; Celebrities; Women; Women; Feminist theory.; Women.; Womyn.; Feminist theory.;

News for all the people : the epic story of race and the American media / by González, Juan,1947-(CARDINAL)672890; Torres, Joseph.(CARDINAL)599672;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-430) and index.The age of newspapers. "Barbarous Indians" and "rebellious Negroes" ; In the mail : the post office, the press and the mass political party ; Inciting to riot : the age of Jackson -- Rebel voices. A new democratic press ; Priests, mobs, and know-nothings : the early Spanish-language press ; The Indian war of words ; To plead our own cause : the early Black press ; "The Chinese must go!" -- The age of news networks. Wiring the news ; The Progressive Era and the colored press -- The age of broadcasting. Words with wings ; Trouble in the streets ; Other voices : Amos 'n' Andy, the "Sunshine Lady" and Los Madrugadores ; Uniting the home front ; The color line and the public interest : the post-War period ; Fierce rebellion, furious reaction : 1963-2003 -- The age of the Internet. Controlling the means of transmission : old media's fall and new media's rise."Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America's racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country's media system, just as the media has contributed to--and every so often, combated--racial oppression. News for All the People reveals how racial segregation distorted the information Americans received from the mainstream media. It unearths numerous examples of how publishers and broadcasters actually fomented racial violence and discrimination through their coverage. And it chronicles the influence federal media policies exerted in such conflicts. It depicts the struggle of Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American journalists who fought to create a vibrant yet little-known alternative, democratic press, and then, beginning in the 1970s, forced open the doors of the major media companies."--from publisher's description.
Subjects: Mass media and race relations; Mass media; Press and politics; Race relations and the press; Racism in mass media.;

The presidents vs. the press : the endless battle between the White House and the media -- from the founding fathers to fake news / by Holzer, Harold,author.(CARDINAL)186790;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An award-winning presidential historian offers an authoritative account of American presidents' attacks on our freedom of the press. "The FAKE NEWS media," Donald Trump has tweeted, "is not my enemy. It is the enemy of the American people." Never has our free press faced so great a threat. Yet the tension between presidents and journalists is as old as the republic itself. From George Washington to Trump, presidents have quarreled with, attacked, denigrated, and manipulated the fourth estate. Washington groused about his treatment in the newspapers, but his successor, John Adams, actually wielded his executive power to overturn press freedoms and prosecute critical reporters. Thomas Jefferson tapped a reporter to find dirt on his rival, Alexander Hamilton, only to have the reporter expose his own affair with his slave Sally Hemings. (Jefferson denied the reports out of hand-perhaps the first presidential cry of "fake news.") Andrew Jackson rewarded loyal newspapers with government contracts; Abraham Lincoln shuttered critical papers and imprisoned their editors without trial. FDR and JFK charmed journalists in order to protect their personal secrets, while Nixon cast the press as a public enemy for daring to investigate his own. In this remarkable new account, acclaimed scholar Harold Holzer guides readers through the clashes between chief executives and journalists, showing how these battles were waged and won, while girding us for a new fight to protect our nation's greatest institution: a free and functioning press"--
Subjects: Presidents; Press and politics; Mass media;

Insane clown president : dispatches from the 2016 circus / by Taibbi, Matt,author.(CARDINAL)348426; Juhasz, Victor,illustrator.(CARDINAL)721341;
"Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy's uncertain future, by the country's most perceptive and fearless political journalist. The 2016 presidential contest as told by Matt Taibbi, from its tragicomic beginnings to its apocalyptic conclusion, is in fact the story of Western civilization's very own train wreck. Years before the clown car of candidates was fully loaded, Taibbi grasped the essential themes of the story: the power of spectacle over substance, or even truth; the absence of a shared reality; the nihilistic rebellion of the white working class; the death of the political establishment; and the emergence of a new, explicit form of white nationalism that would destroy what was left of the Kingian dream of a successful pluralistic society. Taibbi captures, with dead-on, real-time analysis, the failures of the right and the left, from the thwarted Bernie Sanders insurgency to the flawed and aimless Hillary Clinton campaign; the rise of the "dangerously bright" alt-right with its wall-loving identity politics and its rapturous view of the "Racial Holy War" to come; and the giant fail of a flailing, reactive political media that fed a ravenous news cycle not with reporting on political ideology, but with undigested propaganda served straight from the campaign bubble. At the center of it all stands Donald J. Trump, leading a historic revolt against his own party, "bloviating and farting his way" through the campaign, "saying outrageous things, acting like Hitler one minute and Andrew Dice Clay the next." For Taibbi, the stunning rise of Trump marks the apotheosis of the new postfactual movement. Taibbi frames the reporting with original essays that explore the seismic shift in how we perceive our national institutions, the democratic process, and the future of the country. Insane Clown President is not just a postmortem on the collapse and failure of American democracy. It offers the riveting, surreal, unique, and essential experience of seeing the future in hindsight"--Introduction -- The great derangement redux -- Inside the GOP clown car -- Donald Trump just stopped being funny -- The Republicans are officially the party of white paranoia -- Casting Clown Car, the movie -- The official GOP debate drinking game rules, part 2 -- The case for Bernie Sanders -- The clown car rolls on -- America is too dumb for TV news -- It's too lake to turn off Trump -- The official GOP debate drinking game rules, part 5 -- The vampire squid tells us how to vote -- Morning blow: how Mika and Joe became Trump's lapdogs -- How American made Trump unstoppable -- Revenge of the simple: how George H. Bush gave rise to Donald Trump -- Why young people are right about Hillary Clinton -- RIP, GOP: how Trump's campaign is killing the Republican Party -- Democrats will learn all the wrong lessons from their brush with Bernie -- In response to Trump. another dangerous movement appears -- Trump's appetite for destruction: how Trump's disastrous convention doomed the GOP -- The summer of the media shill -- How Donald Trump lost his mojo -- The unconquerable Trump -- The failure and fury of Donald Trump -- President Trump: how America got it so wrong -- President Obama's last stand -- Epilogue.
Subjects: Essays.; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Presidents; Political campaigns; Mass media; Presidents;

The persecution of Sarah Palin : how the elite media tried to bring down a rising star / by Continetti, Matthew.(CARDINAL)478494;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Prologue: The Palin myth: from hero to harpy in eight short weeks -- The golden ticket: When John met Sarah -- The feral beast: The media goes wild -- The village and the city: There's no place like home -- The ties that bind: The blistering assault on Palin's family -- Amazing disgrace: How the press went after Palin's faith -- Sex and Sarah Palin: The furious battle over the Governor's gender -- The classless media: The elite's condescending attitude toward ordinary Americans -- Sarah's choice: What's next for Palin and her party?Palin was a strong and popular conservative with traditional values-- work, family and religion. Elite liberals attacked everything from Palin's clothing to her parenting style to her church. They spread malicious and untrue claims, ridiculing her and her family, in order to give the election to Obama.
Subjects: Palin, Sarah, 1964-; Journalism; Mass media; Political campaigns; Presidents; Press and politics;

Unmasked : big media's war against Trump / by Bozell, L. Brent,author.(CARDINAL)682108; Graham, Tim,author.(CARDINAL)172023;
Argues that the news media tried to destroy President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign but destroyed themselves instead.
Subjects: Trump, Donald, 1946-; Journalism; Mass media; Press and politics; Presidents; Journalism; Mass media; Politics;

Reporting Vietnam.
Includes bibliographical references and idexes.pt. 1. American journalism 1959-1969 -- pt. 2. American journalism 1969-1975.Drawn from original newspaper and magazine reports and contemporary books, these volumes bring together the work of over eighty remarkable writers to create an unprecedented mosaic view of the war and its impact on an increasingly fractured American society. Contains a detailed chronology of the war, historical maps, biographical profiles of the journalists, explanatory notes, a glossary of military terms, an index, and inserts of photographs of the correspondents, many from private collections and never before seen.
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Armed Forces and mass media; Journalism;

The kids' world almanac of football / by Gutman, Bill.(CARDINAL)138145;
Presents trivia about football, discussing its history, players, records, statistics, and media coverage.
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Football; Football; Football; Football;

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