Books

It’s as much the “nitty-gritty of the journalistic enterprise, the ‘how-do-I-do this’ quality of reporting in Iraq” as “the life of the society he is covering” that Edward A. Gargan,…

‘Western reporters in Africa get away with an ignorance that would not be tolerated if they were assigned to other world regions ….’

‘What choices will news organizations make in the years ahead about coverage of the world’s poor and their problems?’ Two new books provide direction.

In ‘Bad News,’ a retired network correspondent eulogizes the decline of foreign news reporting.

A journalist longs for a more ‘dispassionate discussion’ of U.S. war policy.

‘For the first time it has been possible for large numbers of journalists to observe closely the behavior of U.S. troops and how it refracted among Iraqis.’

Reporting from Baghdad, Jon Lee Anderson ‘offers a profound antidote to the simplistic impulses of American television news ….’

Author Mark Dow writes about what happens, but is usually unseen, in immigration prisons.

Shifting perceptions of reality in Iraq ‘expose the futility of our journalistic faith in the truth.’

‘Though the book features events from the past, it should be read as a story that can offer us much to contemplate about our present.’