Uncovered How the media got cozy with power, abandoned its principles, and lost the people
Book - 2023
"America's news media has moved farther away from the people than ever before. The fourth estate is supposed to be a conduit to the people and a check on power. Instead, we have a bunch of geographically isolated, introspection-free, cozy-with-power, egomaniacal journalists thirsty for elite approval. This is a major problem. And no one articulates these problems better than Steve Krakauer, one of America's sharpest media critics. In Uncovered, Krakauer gives readers an extended peek behind the curtain of the media mess in America today. The book dives deep into some of the most important and egregious examples of the elite censorship collusion racket, like how tech suppression and media fear led to the New York Post-Hunter B...iden email debacle before the 2020 election. This is not an "I hate the media" book. Rather, it's the opposite."--
- Subjects
- Published
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New York ; Nashville :
Center Street
2023.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- viii, 292 pages ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781546003472
- Prologue The Laptop
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Way It Was, and How It Got Weird
- Chapter 2. Geographic Bias
- Chapter 3. Laziness and Incompetence vs. Conspiracy
- Chapter 4. Lack of Introspection
- Chapter 5. The Trump Addiction
- Chapter 6. This Was CNN
- Chapter 7. Coziness with Power
- Chapter 8. The Interconnected Mess
- Chapter 9. Broken Financial Incentive Structure
- Chapter 10. Newsroom Purges and Guilt Journalism
- Chapter 11. "Influencers" and Anti-Speech Activism
- Chapter 12. The Transparency Paradox
- Chapter 13. On the Other Hand
- Chapter 14. Defibrillation
- Bonus Conversations
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author