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They're Gonna Murder You - War Stories From My Life At The News Front (Paperback)
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They're Gonna Murder You - War Stories From My Life At The News Front (Paperback)
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As a reporter for 30 years in both newspapers and television,
Clarence Jones was always taking risks. He specialized in the
Mafia, dirty cops and crooked politicians. Who better to kill you
and get with it than a Mafia hit man or a corrupt cop who will be
assigned to investigate your death? His friends were always warning
him: They're Gonna Murder You. But he persisted, to win four Emmys
and become the only reporter for a local station to ever win three
DuPont Columbia awards - television's equivalent of the Pulitzer
Prize. He's a great story teller. The war stories from his
remarkable reporting career read like a murder mystery or a spy
novel. Go with him into the bookie joints in Louisville with a
hidden camera. Or to a Miami crime scene, where the victims were
almost certainly murdered by cops. Travel with him as he tails
Florida's chief justice to a Las Vegas casino. And as you cover
Martin Luther King's civil rights campaigns, always start your car
with the door open. If the KKK has planted a bomb, the blast will
blow you out of the car. You'll probably survive. Hold your breath
as Clarence's car sinks in a canal, so he can show you how to
escape. Control your fear in the middle of a race riot when the
police retreat and the mob turns on you. Watch him slip a recorder
into a private meeting between Richard Nixon and Southern delegates
to the 1968 Republican Convention, so Clarence could report what
Nixon said about his private views on school busing to integrate
schools. Cringe as Clarence shares inside stories of how news was
slanted at his first newspaper and public officials were coddled.
Rejoice in the chapter "Bosses with Balls" as owners and editors at
his later paper and TV stations take career and financial risks to
support his reporting. Worry about the future of the democracy as
mega-corporations take over news outlets and the bean counters
abandon journalism's goals of truth, fairness, and public service.
Jones tells it the way it was. The way it REALLY was. And how great
reporting may yet triumph.
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