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Article: The media elite: America's new powerbrokers.
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- National Review
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- March 13, 1987
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The Media Elite: America's New Power-brokers
by S. Robert Lichter, StanleyRothman, and Linda S. Lichter (Adler & Adler, 342 pp., $19.95)
THE ROTHMAN-LICHTER studies ofmedia power and glory have become as indispensable to media criticism as beer is to sliced barbecue. Not that the studies please all palates.
Media apologists--a breed that seemsnot to exist outside the media--view Rothman-Lichter with a mixture of condescension and fear. I shouldn't wonder. These sober, professorial inquiries into the thought patterns of mediafolk are changing the way the news business--my own business--is discussed and understood. I, for one, say bully. It's ...