Judy Muller

Emus Loose in Egnar

Big Stories from Small Towns

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

At a time when mainstream news media are hemorrhaging and doomsayers are predicting the death of journalism, take heart: the First Amendment is alive and well in small towns across America. In Emus Loose in Egnar, award-winning journalist Judy Muller takes the reader on a grassroots tour of rural American newspapers, from an Indian reservation in Montana to the Alaska tundra to Martha's Vineyard, and discovers that many weeklies are not just surviving, but thriving.   In these small towns, stories can range from club news to Klan news, from broken treaties to broken hearts, from banned books to escaped emus; they document the births, deaths, crimes, sports, and local shenanigans that might seem to matter only to those who live there. And yet, as this book shows us, these "little" stories create a mosaic of American life that tells us a great deal about who we are-what moves us, angers us, amuses us.   Filled with characters both quirky and courageous, the book is a heartening reminder that there is a different kind of "bottom line" in the hearts of journalists who keep churning out good stories, week after week, for the corniest of reasons: that our freedoms depend on it.   

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780803243743
• ISBN-10: 080324374X
• Artikelnr.: 36147104

Autorenporträt

Judy Muller is a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California and is the author of Now This: Radio, Television, and the Real World. She is also an NPR commentator and has worked as a correspondent for ABC, CBS, and PBS, winning numerous Emmy awards and, in 2010, the prestigious Peabody Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowlegments
Prologue
1. Everything Old Is New Again
2. Crusaders
3. Curmudgeons
4. Too Close for Comfort
5. This Town Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us
6. All the Names Unfit to Print
7. Never Speak Ill of the Dead
8. School Sports: Holy Hyperbole!
9. They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore
10. Coming Home
Bibliography