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Off The Record The Press The Government And The War Over Anonymous Sources Norman Pearlstine

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Publisher: Macmillan

File Extension: PDF

File size: 24.19 MB

Pages: 282

Author: Norman Pearlstine

ISBN: 9780374224493, 0374224498

Language: English

Year: 2007

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Off The Record The Press The Government And The War Over Anonymous Sources Norman Pearlstine by Norman Pearlstine 9780374224493, 0374224498 instant download after payment.

When Norman
Pearlstine--as editor in chief of Time Inc.--agreed to give prosecutor
Patrick Fitzgerald a reporter's notes of a conversation with a
"confidential source," he was vilified for betraying the freedom of the
press. But in this hard-hitting inside story, Pearlstine shows that
"Plamegate" was not the clear case it seemed to be--and that
confidentiality has become a weapon in the White House's war on the
press, a war fought with the unwitting complicity of the press itself.
Watergate
and the publication of the Pentagon Papers are the benchmark incidents
of government malfeasance exposed by a fearless press. But as Pearlstine
explains with great clarity and brio, the press's hunger for a new
Watergate has made reporters vulnerable to officials who use
confidentiality to get their message out, even if it means leaking state
secrets and breaking the law. Prosecutors appointed to investigate the
government have investigated the press instead; news organizations such
as "The New York Times "have defended the principle of confidentiality
at all costs--implicitly putting themselves above the law. Meanwhile,
the use of unnamed sources has become common in everything from
celebrity weeklies to the so-called papers of record.
What is to be
done? Pearlstine calls on Congress to pass a federal shield law
protecting journalists from the needless intrusions of government; at
the same time, he calls on the press to name its sources whenever
possible. "Off the Record "is a powerful argument with the vividness and
narrative drive of the best long-form journalism; it is sure to spark
controversy among the people who run the government--and among the
people who tell their stories.