Sign Off takes on network coverage of Three-Mile Island, riots in Miami, sex, theselling of politicians, the "electronic church," hyped-up news programming, and more. It is thethird book by Ed Diamond
The new technologies of the 1990s, Ed Diamond and Robert Silverman argue, have helped create a blowhard culture, a talk-show politics driven by instant news analysis, over-reliance on public-opinion p
Good News, Bad News is one of the few recent works of press criticism in which substance and style are fully in harmony. The reader is neither overwhelmed with raw data nor dazzled by flashy opinions