A combination textbook and inspirational message to working and
would-be journalists. Fuller is publisher of the Chicago Tribune, a
Pulitzer Prize - winning editorial writer, lawyer, novelist (Our
Fathers' Shadows, 1987, etc.) and one-time beat reporter. For
better and for worse, he edits out none of these points of view in
News Values. Fuller offers nuts-and-bolts advice concerning the
confidentiality of sources and the use of tape recorders, even as
he muses on the nature of truth and mounts an impassioned defense
of the written word. It may strike some as too large a stew of
ideas, violating Fuller's credo that newspapers hoping to survive
into the 21st century must provide a "coherent . . . report of the
things people need to know in order to live in an increasingly
complicated world." Still, journalists and newspaperphiles willing
to wade through the jumble will be rewarded with precisely those
elements that Fuller says readers look for in their dailies:
"knowledge rather than just facts, perhaps even a little wisdom."
He offers solid advice on ways to write balanced stories even in an
era when the myth of objectivity has been exploded, and he suggests
approaches to new journalism that do not violate the cardinal rules
of the old. Even as he tells reporters to get the spelling of names
right, he's reminding them not to forget the higher ideals of their
calling. Fuller's book about newspaper writing and editing could
have used a good editor. However, following his rules of
intellectual honesty and balance, the other side of the coin must
be stated: Like the best newspapers, Fuller's book provides
"information that matters." (Kirkus Reviews)
News Values is a concise, powerful statement of the fundamental
issues, ethical and practical, confronting newspapers today. Jack
Fuller not only makes those issues clear, but offers a provocative
new perspective on questions journalists should be asking
themselves now in order to prepare for tomorrow. Every talk show
host should read this book. So should every newsroom cynic. . . .
'Pursuit of truth is not a license to be a jerk.' In all too many
newsrooms, that statement would resound like a three-bell
bulletin.--Martin F. Nolan, New York Times Book Review [News
Values] ought to be required reading not just for those who work
for newspapers, but for all those who read and care about them. . .
. [This book] seems destined to become one of those slim but
important volumes people read for a long time to come.--Richard J.
Tofel, Wall Street Journal Fuller stays above the fray [of the many
books on the media]: His is a deeply intellectual approach, one
that provides serious context to the highly complicated issue of
how the news 'works.'--Duncan McDonald, Chicago Tribune Books News
Values has the touch and feel of knowledgeable, authentic caring
about the kind of journalism than can help make society more
cohesive, even human. --Monitor's Pick, Christian Science Monitor
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