Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free PressKristina Börjesson The price of liberty / Gerard Colby -- The fox, the hounds, and the sacred cows / Jane Akre -- The silence of the lambs : an American in journalistic exile / Greg Palast -- Shouting at the crocodile / Maurice Murad -- Into the buzzsaw / Kristina Borjesson -- Coal mine canaries / David E. Hendrix -- When black becomes white / Philip Weiss -- Stories we love, stories we hate / Helen Malmgren -- The story no one wanted to hear / J. Robert Port -- A dream job / April Oliver -- Verdict first, evidence later : the case for Bobby Garwood / Monika Jensen-Stevenson -- Let's blow up our brand : the dangerous course of today's broadcast newsrooms / Karl Idsvoog -- Mainstream media : the drug war's shills / Michael Levine -- The mighty Wurlitzer plays on / Gary Webb -- Crimes and silence : the CIA's criminal acts and the media's silence / John Kelly -- What happened to good old-fashioned muckraking? / Carl Jensen -- The light that won't go out / Brant Houston -- The rise and fall of professional journalism / Robert McChesney. |
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Foreword | 5 |
Editors Introduction | 11 |
The Fox the Hounds and the Sacred Cows | 37 |
Copyright | |
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