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"A landmark in the field of writing about journalism." The
Nation
The classic inside story of The New York Times, the most
prestigious, and perhaps the most powerful, of all American
newspapers. Bestselling author Talese lays bare the secret internal
intrigues behind the tradition of front page exposes in a story as
gripping as a work of fiction and as immediate as today's
headlines.
An enlightening anthology of George Orwell's journalism and
non-fiction writing, showing his genius across a wide variety of
genres. Selected by leading expert Peter Davison. Famous for his
novels and essays, Orwell remains one of our very best journalists
and commentators. Confronting social, political and moral dilemmas
head-on, he was fearless in his writing: a champion of free speech,
a defender against social injustice and a sharp-eyed chronicler of
the age. But his work is also timeless, as pieces on immigration,
Scottish independence and a Royal Commission on the Press attest.
Seeing Things As They Are, compiled by renowned Orwell scholar
Peter Davison, brings together in one volume many of Orwell's
articles and essays for journals and newspapers, his broadcasts for
the BBC, and his book, theatre and film reviews. Little escaped
Orwell's attention: he writes about the Spanish Civil War, public
schools and poltergeists, and reviews books from Brave New World to
Mein Kampf. Almost half of his popular 'As I Please' weekly
columns, written while literary editor of the Tribune during the
1940s, are collected here, ranging over topics as diverse as the
purchase of rose bushes from Woolworth's to the Warsaw Uprising.
Whether political, poetic, polemic or personal, this is surprising,
witty and intelligent writing to delight in. A mix of well-known
and intriguing, less familiar pieces, this engaging collection
illuminates our understanding of Orwell's work as a whole.
Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How To Be A Woman
was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one
subject: being a woman. In MORANTHOLOGY Caitlin 'gets quite chatty'
about many subjects, including cultural, social and political
issues which are usually left to hot-shot wonks and not a woman who
sometimes keeps a falafel in her handbag. These other subjects
include... Caffeine | Ghostbusters | Being Poor | Twitter |
Caravans | Obama | Wales | Paul McCartney | The Welfare State |
Sherlock | David Cameron Looking Like Ham | Amy Winehouse | 'The
Big Society' | Big Hair | Nutter-letters | Michael Jackson's
funeral | Failed Nicknames | Wolverhampton | Squirrels' Testicles |
Sexy Tax | Binge-drinking | Chivalry | Rihanna's Cardigan | Party
Bags | Hot People| Transsexuals | The Gay Moon Landings
What does it feel like to be featured, quoted, or just named in a
news story? A refugee family, the survivor of a shooting, a primary
voter in Iowa-the views and experiences of ordinary people are an
important component of journalism. While much has been written
about how journalists work and gather stories, what do we discover
about the practice of journalism and attitudes about the media by
focusing on the experiences of the subjects themselves? In Becoming
the News, Ruth Palmer argues that understanding the motivations and
experiences of those who have been featured in news
stories-voluntarily or not-sheds new light on the practice of
journalism and the importance many continue to place on the role of
the mainstream media. Based on dozens of interviews with news
subjects, Becoming the News studies how ordinary people make sense
of their experience as media subjects. Palmer charts the arc of the
experience of "making" the news, from the events that brought an
ordinary person to journalists' attention through the decision to
cooperate with reporters, interactions with journalists, and
reactions to the news coverage and its aftermath. She explores what
motivates someone to talk to the press; whether they consider the
potential risks; the power dynamics between a journalist and their
subject; their expectations about the motivations of journalists;
and the influence of social media on their decisions and reception.
Pointing to the ways traditional news organizations both continue
to hold on to and are losing their authority, Becoming the News has
important implications for how we think about the production and
consumption of news at a time when Americans distrust the news
media more than ever.
Danielle Citron takes the conversation about technology and privacy
out of the boardrooms and op-eds to reach readers where we are - in
our bathrooms and bedrooms; with our families and our lovers; in
all the parts of our lives we assume are untouchable - and shows us
that privacy, as we think we know it, is largely already gone. The
boundary that once protected our intimate lives from outside
interests is an artefact of the 20th century. In the 21st, we have
embraced a vast array of technology that enables constant access
and surveillance of the most private aspects of our lives. From
non-consensual pornography, to online extortion, to the sale of our
data for profit, we are vulnerable to abuse. As Citron reveals,
wherever we live, laws have failed miserably to keep up with
corporate or individual violators, letting our privacy wash out
with the technological tide. And the erosion of intimate privacy in
particular, Citron argues, holds immense toxic power to transform
our lives and our societies for the worse (and already has). With
vivid examples drawn from interviews with victims, activists and
lawmakers from around the world, The Fight for Privacy reveals the
threat we face and argues urgently and forcefully for a
reassessment of privacy as a human right. And, as a legal scholar
and expert, Danielle Citron is the perfect person to show us the
way to a happier, better protected future.
This all began quite unexpectedly one rainy autumn evening a couple of years in a fairground near to the centre of Nottingham...`In amongst the bright lights and bumper cars,Nick Davies noticed two boys,no more than twelve years old,oddly detached from the fun of the scene.Davies discovered they were part of a network of chidren sellingthemselves on the streets of the city,running a nightly gaunlet of dangers-pimps,punters,the Vice Squad,disease,drugs. This propelled Davies into a journey of discovery through the slums and ghettoes of our cities. He found himself in crack houses and brothels,he be- friended street gangs and drug dealers Nick Davies`s journey into the hidden realm is powerful,disturbing and impressive,and is bound torouse controversy and demands for change. Davies unravels threads of Britain`s social fabric as he travels deeper and deeper into the country of poverty ,towards the dark heart of British society.
Everything Must Change! brings together prominent commentators from
around the world to present a rich and nuanced weighing of
progressive possibilities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In
these pages you'll encounter influential voices across the left,
ranging from Roger Waters to Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Zizek to Saskia
Sassen. Gael Garcia Bernal, Brian Eno, and Larry Charles examine
the pandemic's more cultural and artistic consequences, touching on
topics of love, play, comedy, dreaming, and time. Their words sit
alongside analyses of the paradoxes and possibilities of debt,
internationalism, and solidarity by Astra Taylor, David Graeber,
Vijay Prashad, and Stephanie Kelton. Burgeoning surveillance and
control measures in the name of public health are a concern for
many of the contributors here, including Shoshana Zuboff and Evgeny
Morozov, as are the opportunities presented by the crisis for
exploitation by financiers, technocrats, and the far right. Against
a return to the normal and, indeed, the notion that there ever was
such a thing, these conversations insist that urgent, systemic
change is needed to tackle not only the pandemics arising from the
human destruction of nature, but also the ceaseless debilitations
of contemporary global capitalism. Contributors: Tariq Ali, David
Adler, Gael Garcia Bernal, Larry Charles, Noam Chomsky, Brian Eno,
Daniel Ellsberg, Kenneth Goldsmith, David Graeber, Johann Hari,
Maja Kantar, Stephanie Kelton, Stefania Maurizi, Evgeny Morozov,
Maja Pelevic, Vijay Prashad , Angela Richter, Saskia Sassen, Sasa
Savanovic, Jeremy Scahill, Richard Sennett, John Shipton, Astra
Taylor, Ece Temelkuran, Yanis Varoufakis, Roger Waters, Slavoj
Zizek, and Shoshana Zuboff.
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century
invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world. 'The
real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride-across the
centuries and around the globe, through startling history and vivid
first-person reporting.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times
bestselling author of Empire of Pain The bicycle is a vestige of
the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of
smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet across
the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of
transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike - and nearly
everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen
reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an
ever-present force in humanity's life and dreamlife, and a
flashpoint in culture wars for more for than two hundred years.
Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen unfolds
the bicycle's saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day
renaissance as a 'green machine' in a world afflicted by pandemic
and climate change. Readers meet unforgettable characters: feminist
rebels who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a
Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas,
astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity aboard the
International Space Station. Two Wheels Good examines the bicycle's
past and peers into its future, challenging myths and cliches,
while uncovering cycling's connection to colonial conquest and the
gentrification of cities. But the book is also a love letter: a
reflection on the sensual and spiritual pleasures of bike riding
and an ode to an engineering marvel - a wondrous vehicle whose
passenger is also its engine. 'Love for two-wheeled transport runs
through every sentence in the book' - Economist 'The best thing
I've ever read on a single subject' - Lauren Collins, author of
When in French 'This is social history as it ought to be written:
funny, precise, surprising, anti-dogmatic and unafraid of following
a story' - Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon
Barbed, witty, revealing and entertaining, Too Famous could be an instant classic.
Bestselling author of Fire and Fury, Siege and Landslide and chronicler of the Trump White House, Michael Wolff dissects more of the major monsters, media moguls and vainglorious figures of our time. His scalpel opens their lives, careers and always equivocal endgames with the same vividness and wit he brought to his evisceration of the former president. These brilliant and biting profiles form a mesmerising portrait of the hubris, overreach and periodic self-destruction of some of the most famous faces of the last twenty years.
This collection draws on new and unpublished work - recent reporting about Jared Kushner, Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein - and decades of coverage of the most notable figures of the time - among them Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo, Rudy Giuliani, Alan Rusbridger, Arianna Huffington, Piers Morgan, Boris Johnson and Rupert Murdoch - to create a lasting statement on the corrosive influence of being in the public eye.
Ultimately, Too Famous is an examination of how the quest for fame and power became the driving force of culture and politics and the drug that alters all public personalities. And how the need, the desperation, the ruthlessness demanded to fulfil that quest became the toxic grease that keeps the world spinning. You know the people here by name and reputation, but it's guaranteed that after this book you will never see them the same way again. Or fail to recognise the scorched earth the famous leave behind them.
One of the most important voices in contemporary American
journalism - Independent Matt Taibbi is one of the few journalists
in America who speaks truth to power - Bernie Sanders Matt Taibbi
is the best polemic journalist in America - Felix Salmon NEW YORK
TIMES BESTSELLER "The thing is, when you actually think about it,
it's not funny. Given what's at stake, it's more like the opposite,
like the first sign of the collapse of the United States as a
global superpower. Twenty years from now, when we're all living
like prehistory hominids and hunting rats with sticks, we'll
probably look back at this moment as the beginning of the end." In
this groundbreaking battery of dispatches from the heartland of
America, Matt Taibbi tells the full story of the Trump phenomenon,
from its tragi-comic beginnings to the apocalyptic election. Full
of sharp, on-the-ground reporting and gallows humour, his incisive
analysis goes beyond the bizarre and disturbing election to tell a
wider story of the apparent collapse of American democracy. Taibbi
saw the essential themes right from the start: the power of
spectacle over truth; the end of a shared reality on the left and
right; 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. From the thwarted Bernie
Sanders insurgency to the aimless Hillary Clinton campaign, across
the flailing media coverage and the trampled legacy of Obama, this
is the story of ordinary voters forced to bear witness to the whole
charade. At the centre of it all, "a bumbling train wreck of a
candidate who belched and preened his way past a historically weak
field" who, improbably, has taken control of the world's most
powerful nation. This is essential and hilarious reading that
explores how the new America understands itself, and about the
future of the world just beyond the horizon.
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