Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

News Flash:

Journalism, Infotainment and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News
Front Cover
4 Reviews
John Wiley & Sons, Jun 11, 2004 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 259 pages
 While talking heads debate the media’s alleged conservative or liberal bias, award-winning journalist Bonnie Anderson knows that the problem with television news isn’t about the Left versus the Right-- it’s all about the money.  From illegal hiring practices to ethnocentric coverage to political cheerleading, News Flash exposes how American broadcast conglomerates’ pursuit of the almighty dollar consistently trumps the need for fair and objective reporting.  Along the way to the bottomline, the proud tradition of American television journalism has given way to an entertainment-driven industry that’s losing credibility and viewers by the day.

As someone who has worked as both a broadcast reporter and a network executive, Anderson details how the networks have been co-opted by bottom-line thinking that places more value on a telegenic face than on substantive reporting. Network executives—the real power in broadcast journalism—are increasingly employing tactics and strategies from the entertainment industry. They "cast" reporters based on their ability to "project credibility," value youth over training and experience, and often greenlight coverage only if they can be assured that it will appeal to advertiser-friendly demographics

  

What people are saying - Write a review

Review: News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News

User Review  - Michael Jenkins - Goodreads

This was a okay book,but I did`nt finish. I learned just by reading the first three chapters. As a aspiring journalist, I learned a little about how the media treats people, I knew most of it already but it was a okay book. I can`t really say much considering I did`nt finish it. Read full review

Review: News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News

User Review  - Robin Kemp - Goodreads

Anderson knows whereof she speaks. The business is poorer for her absence and the absence of old-school, hard-news journalists like her. Read full review

Related books

Contents

The Rise of the Corporate News Networks
3
What You Dont Know Can Hurt You
27
This Is Good Business?
43
The Good
64
The Bad
97
All Profits All the Time
151
We Report We Decide
189
Strange Bedfellows
203
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

References to this book

From other books

News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment
Battleground: The Media [Two Volumes]
All Book Search results »

References from web pages

Bonnie M. Anderson Newsflash
Now, as author of News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment, and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News, she turns a critical eye on what passes today as ...
www.buzzflash.com/ interviews/ 05/ 03/ int05013.html

In The News
buzzflash Recommendation: · Book: News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News by Bonnie Anderson ...
www.tvnewsflash.com/ innews.htm

Journalism’s Proper Bottom Line
Journalism’s Future. Nieman Reports / Winter 2004 51. I. n recent years, punditry, opinion and so-called infotain-. ment have permeated newscasts and ...
www.nieman.harvard.edu/ reports/ 04-4NRwinter/ 51V58N4.pdf

Nieman Reports: The precarious state of television news: 'we're ...
News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment, and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News Bonnie M. Anderson Jossey-Bass. 288 Pages. $26.95. ...
findarticles.com/ p/ articles/ mi_hb3330/ is_200503/ ai_n18040852/ print

Powell's Books - Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television ...
News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News · News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment and the Bottom-Line Business of ...
www.powells.com/ cgi-bin/ biblio?inkey=1-9780743299824-1

Anderson Bonnie | English Bookstore in Czech Republic
Journalism, Infotainment And The Bottom-Line Business Of Broadcast News John Wiley And Sons Ltd (United States), 2004 Hardback, 288 stran ...
www.bookfayre.cz/ books/ name/ bonnie_anderson.1238756.html.cs

Livros business news: Compare preço de vários modelos de Livros ...
compare · News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment and the Bottom-line Business of Broadcast News - Bonnie Anderson (0787972851) ...
compare.buscape.com.br/ proc_unico?id=3482& raiz=3482& kw=business+news

About the author (2004)

Bonnie M. Anderson is a twenty-seven-year news veteran who has won seven Emmy Awards and been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She began her career as a print reporter for the Miami Herald, the Miami News, and Gannett Newspapers, and spent ten years at NBC News and close to ten at CNN. Anderson currently provides media training for executives, journalists, and other professionals.

Bibliographic information