Plagiarism, fabrication, and other ethical issues. Reporting on the private lives of public figures. The gay issue. Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the press. Gulf War reporters get outflanked by Pentagon censorship.
Newspapers lose readers, and are gobbled up by heartless, advertising-hungry conglomerates.
How to improve the situation. This book is helpful, but Kurtz himself pushes some trivia. There is no mention, for example, of the nearly 400 members of the media who have been co-opted by the Council on Foreign Relations. Race and gay issues, one suspects, are merely a smoke screen to divert from more fundamental class issues.