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Article: A remembrance of foreign reporting: in 'Bad News,' a retired network correspondent eulogizes the decline of foreign news reporting.(Book Review)
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- Nieman Reports
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- June 22, 2005
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Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All Tom Fenton ReganBooks. 262 Pages. $25.95.
"I, and scores of my fellow American foreign correspondents, had been tracking stories about al-Qaeda and its allies for more than a decade. But we rarely reported what we knew on network television news--because, much of the time, our bosses didn't consider such developments newsworthy."--Tom Fenton
In his sobering new book, Tom Fenton, long overseas for CBS News, has a new twist on an honored tradition, memoir writing by foreign correspondents. Instead of reliving what he has seen and explaining what it all meant, his central ...
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