Journalism Is War PDF Download

Author: George Archibald
Publisher: Anomalos Publishing
ISBN: 9780978845377
Category : Government and the press
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In the 1980 's, Rep. Newt Gingrich, then Republican whip and organizer of House Republican conservatives, was a major source for The Washington Times. Gingrich and his band of young-turk conservative Republican House members elected in the late 1970s and early eighties were tired of their party 's leaders who had become the lazy, perpetual minority. Gingrich, Trent Lott and other young Republican House members reached out to reporters like George Archibald, fed them stories, gave them access to documents and sources and briefed them in daily meetings in Gingrich 's second-floor whip 's office in the U.S. Capitol. All told, the years from 1989 to 1998 were a field of juicy clovers for The Washington Times news reporters. The circulation director often commented that The Washington Times sold 10,000 extra single copies each day when sex was on Page One, 10,000 more copies from orange boxes on the streets when the Redskins football team was out front and 10,000 more when they had a big political scandal. The recipe was clear and became the Times mantra. Washington is a dog-eat-dog town where overpaid hangers-on work constantly to secure their own positions – politicians, congressional and executive branch staff members and civil servants, lobbyists for corporate, union and other bosses, lobbyist and interest-group political fellow-travelers whose paychecks come from Washington 's primary business – politics around the clock. In “Journalism is War †, George Archibald recounts stories behind these stories – Democratic vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro 's financial ethics problems in 1984, Reagan media adviser Michael Deaver 's lobbying scandal leading to his perjury conviction in 1986, House Speaker Jim Wright 's disgrace and resignation in 1989, subsequent congressional scandals in the early 1990s and cultural conflict stories to the present. Fasten your seat belt. These are the behind-the-scenes revelations about the selfish, narcissistic, power-hungry political and media players on all sides who played the game for their own benefit and power -- who was stabbing whom and why. No holds barred!