At a time when mainstream news media are hemorrhaging and
doomsayers are predicting the death of journalism, take heart: the
First Amendment is alive and well in small towns across America. In
"Emus Loose in Egnar," award-winning journalist Judy Muller takes
the reader on a grassroots tour of rural American newspapers, from
an Indian reservation in Montana to the Alaska tundra to Martha's
Vineyard, and discovers that many weeklies are not just surviving,
but thriving.
In these small towns, stories can range from club news to Klan
news, from broken treaties to broken hearts, from banned books to
escaped emus; they document the births, deaths, crimes, sports, and
local shenanigans that might seem to matter only to those who live
there. And yet, as this book shows us, these "little" stories
create a mosaic of American life that tells us a great deal about
who we are--what moves us, angers us, amuses us. Filled with
characters both quirky and courageous, the book is a heartening
reminder that there is a different kind of "bottom line" in the
hearts of journalists who keep churning out good stories, week
after week, for the corniest of reasons: that our freedoms depend
on it. Not that they would put it that way, necessarily. In the
words of one editor in Colorado, "If we found a political official
misusing taxpayer funds, we wouldn't hesitate to nail him to a
stump."
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