Social media’s impact on the news
Review of Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts by Jill Abramson
Abramson states that her ambition is to update The Powers That Be, Halberstam’s earlier book that brilliantly covered the symbiosis of print and television news. That was one of the best books I read as a student of politics in the 1970s. Journalists were heroes in his book, which climaxed in Watergate. Abramson provides a much-needed addition, putting …
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