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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.
Clarence Jones is a writer, inventor, tinkerer, photographer,
sailor. He was born in the middle of the Great Depression. When
something broke, you fixed it. There was no money for a repair man.
He learned as a youngster how to design and make things that worked
just as well as those in the store that cost a lot. His inventive
creativity was a great asset in his careers as an award-winning
newspaper and television reporter. One of the biggest challenges
was often figuring out how to hide a camera or a recording device
that would capture the evidence to prove his target's guilt. So
when he became a sailor in mid-life, it was just natural for him to
design gadgets that made his boat work better. The impetus for some
of his projects would be a magazine article about a new device for
sailboats. Within a day or so, Clarence would have a working
prototype that would do the same thing. For a tiny fraction of what
the new gadget cost. This book is a collection of those projects,
many of them first published in sailing magazines. The guidelines
for his sailboat projects - and the writing about them - have
always been: Simplicity Ease of assembly Minimal cost Lots of
pictures Where to get the materials That's what this book is all
about.
The new, updated edition of a classic guidebook. Reviewers have
called it the bible for news media relations. Written by Clarence
Jones, one of the nation's most honored investigative reporters,
who left reporting to become a news media consultant and on-camera
coach when this book was first published. Jones helps you
understand how the news media operate and how to cope with them. A
former investigative reporter in both newspapers and television,
the author shares his candid, critical assessment of where the
media are, and where they're going. The book is divided into three
sections -- Media Strategy, Media Skills, and Inside the Media. It
includes basic public relations guidelines, as well as extensive,
step-by-step recommendations when you've been targeted by the
media, or need to get your story out. Interview and news conference
tips, crisis management, libel and privacy law are all explored in
great detail. How to safely talk to reporters off-the-record.
Explanations of how they'll edit you and what you can do to make
the editing more accurate. Full text of the code of ethics
reporters and editors claim to live by, and what you can do when
they break their own rules. Four chapters cover on-camera skills
and performance. How to deal with stage fright, how to sit, getting
your mind in the right space for the interview. What to wear. How
to craft a quote they'll use, and use exactly as you said it. How
to judge media advice from your lawyer. The battle for money and
power that is now raging between print, television, and the
Internet. The book includes extensive case studies of people and
corporations who were caught in the media spotlight. How and why
they succeeded or failed in defending themselves. Lessons that can
be applied to your next crisis. How to become the expert on call by
creating an inexpensive webcam studio so you're available 24/7 for
instant interviews networks and local stations can include in their
stories.
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