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Leonard Downie Jr., and Robert Kaiser, two top editors at the Washington Post, have written a new book detailing the corrupting influence of corporate ownership on mainstream news. Titled The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril, their book details how the push for profits during the past quarter century has substituted entertainment for analysis, undermined investigative journalism (too expensive), given us ever-more stories about actors, sports figures, and celebrities, and blurred the lines between news and advertising.
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/13916/sheldon-rampton
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/media/journalism
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/corporations
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/ethics
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[6] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0375408746/thecenterformediA/