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Caustic, informed - often hilarious - this survey of the omissions, distortions and downright fiction in our newspapers may well be the best book ever written about the American press

Author(s): A. J. Liebling
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Year: 1964

Language: English
Pages: 293
City: New York

Foreword: The End of Free Lunch - 3

1. Toward a One-Paper Town
A Free Press? - 15
Do You Belong in Journalism? - 26
The Big Decision - 35
Toward a One-Paper Town - 43
Dismally - 52

2. The Deserving Rich
Horsefeathers Swathed in Mink - 79
The Great Gouamba - 90
The Impossible Headline - 98
Inflamed, But Cool - 107
Notes and Comment - 119

3. Press Mess
The M.B.I. - 126
Goodbye, M.B.I. - 134
Spotlight on the Jury - 144

4. Innocence At Home
The Colonel Looks on Marathon - 167
Two Pounds for a Dime - 177
The Pretzels - 193
Antepenultimatum - 194
Miracle in Palermo - 200
Double Free - 202
The Rubber-Type Army - 203
The Rubber-Type Army--A Postscript - 209
Notes and Comment - 219

5. No-News
Death on the One Hand - 226
More News Behind the News - 239

6. Not Too Lopsided
Eden Must Go--Or Must He? - 258
The Coast Recedes - 267
New York Revisited - 276
Spot News About the Leopard - 285