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Article: The precarious state of television news: 'we're going to have to completely reinvent it--not only the substance, but the way in which we interact with our audience.'.(News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment, and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News)(Book Review)
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- Nieman Reports
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- March 22, 2005
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News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment, and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News Bonnie M. Anderson Jossey-Bass. 288 Pages. $26.95.
"It's all about money, a desperate attempt to hang on to the huge profits news had earned over the years. And that is far more important to the corporations than the people's right to know, even more important than a healthy democracy."--Bonnie Anderson
Bonnie M. Anderson was fired from her job as vice president of recruiting for CNN in 2001. She claims it was due to her resistance to what she describes as discriminatory hiring practices. In her book, "News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment, and the Bottom-Line Business of ...