Overview
From the explosion of fake news to the challenges of the 24 hour news cycle, legendary journalist Bob Schieffer examines political journalism today and those who practice it. Based on interviews with over 40 media leaders, Schieffer provides an inside look at the changing role of media and asks whether today’s citizens are more informed or just overwhelmed.
Full Product Details
Author: Bob Schieffer ,
H. Andrew Schwartz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:
Width: 15.90cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 23.70cm
Weight: 0.449kg
ISBN: 9781538107218
ISBN 10: 153810721
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 01 October 2017
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
In this incisive work, a veteran newsman explores modern media and why we have become so vulnerable to 'alternative facts.' Overload is news veteran Bob Schieffer's insightful take on modern journalism, presented with the able assistance of H. Andrew Schwartz of the Center for Strategic and International Studies....Despite major challenges to media outlets, Schieffer's tone remains upbeat about journalism's future. This book is an important guide that has much to offer to those in media and journalism, as well as to concerned citizens. * Foreword Reviews *
In this incisive work, a veteran newsman explores modern media and why we have become so vulnerable to 'alternative facts.' Overload is news veteran Bob Schieffer's insightful take on modern journalism, presented with the able assistance of H. Andrew Schwartz of the Center for Strategic and International Studies....Despite major challenges to media outlets, Schieffer's tone remains upbeat about journalism's future. This book is an important guide that has much to offer to those in media and journalism, as well as to concerned citizens. * Foreword Reviews * These days, the news is the news. Accusations of 'fake news' abound, while antagonistic salvos are fired at reporters, and administration officials declare the media to be the 'enemy of the people.' Schieffer, former host of CBS's Face the Nation, is a giant of journalism; Schwartz, his co-author, is chief communications officer at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Together, they examine the multiplicity of ways news is disseminated in the twenty-first century and ponder the irony that today's citizens are less informed, despite having more media choices than ever before. Providing overviews of venerable institutions such as the New York Times and the Washington Post as well as such more recent additions as Buzzfeed and Vox Media, the authors succeed at helping media consumers make wise choices about where to get the news by examining journalistic standards and challenges and offering conclusions about our current state of information saturation. Succinct, savvy, and shrewd, this read-in-one-seating treatise on the Fourth Estate provides a crucial tool for critical analysis. * Booklist *
Author Information
Bob Schieffer, one of America’s pre-eminent television journalists and former host of CBS’s Face the Nation, is the author of This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV (Penguin, 2003), Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast (Simon & Schuster, 2004), and Bob Schieffer’s America (Penguin, 2009). He is a member of the Broadcasting Hall of Fame and in 2009 was named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress. He resides in Washington, DC. H. Andrew Schwartz is chief communications officer at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A former White House producer at Fox News, Schwartz co-hosts with Bob Schieffer the weekly About the News podcast and writes The Evening newsletter, a daily roundup of international affairs.
