American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520243422)

In this vividly written, compelling narrative, award-winning journalist Neil Henry confronts the crisis facing professional journalism in this era of rapid technological transformation. American Carnival combines elements of memoir with extensive media research to explore critical contemporary issues ranging from reporting on the Iraq War, to American race relations, to the exploitation of the image of journalism by advertisers and politicians. Drawing on significant currents in U.S. media and social history, Henry argues that, given the amount of fraud in many institutions in American life today, the decline of journalistic professionalism sparked by the economic challenge of New Media poses especially serious implications for democracy. As increasingly alarming stories surface about unethical practices, American Carnival makes a stirring case for journalism as a calling that is vital to a free society, a profession that is more necessary than ever in a digital age marked by startling assaults on the cultural primacy of truth.

Author: Neil Henry
ISBN-10: 0520243420
ISBN-13: 9780520243422
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/29/2007
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.38w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/01/2007 pg. 53
New York Review of Books 08/16/2007 pg. 8
Foreword 07/01/2007 pg. 95
Commonweal 02/29/2008 pg. 34