Books dealing with corruption in journalism?

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Ritt
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Know any good ones? (looking for both fiction or non) Tell me, tell me now!

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61, thats a movie. Not so much corruption, just assholes ruining Roger Maris' life.

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wasnt Shattered Glass a book before it was a movie?

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michael crichtons(rip) book "airframe" has a lot to do with journalism(reporting) its a really good book to

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Will you accept a book on media ethics in journalism? I read 'The Journalist and the Murderer' by Janet Malcolm as part of journo degree. It is based on the real life story of journalist writing a book about a murderer. Claiming to write a book that would work in his defence, he agreed and the book ended up being an indictment of the crime and the murderer. Malcolm's book is about the resulting law suit where a convicter murderer was essentially seen as the good guy against a writer. Can't claim it be a work of genius but it is an interesting tale.

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beardofzeus wrote:
Will you accept a book on media ethics in journalism? I read 'The Journalist and the Murderer' by Janet Malcolm as part of journo degree. It is based on the real life story of journalist writing a book about a murderer. Claiming to write a book that would work in his defence, he agreed and the book ended up being an indictment of the crime and the murderer. Malcolm's book is about the resulting law suit where a convicter murderer was essentially seen as the good guy against a writer. Can't claim it be a work of genius but it is an interesting tale.

Actually, this might be more like what I'm looking for.

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