Blunt force
Subtitle: a reporter's heartbeat
By: Gary L. Wilson
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Vantage Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780533160341
Subjects: Journalists; Biography; Reporters and reporting
Description: An uncensored, entertaining, no-holds barred, thirty-year look at Wilson's experiences in the radio and TV areas, as well as his work for newspapers and public relations. Deep-rooted political corruption, management ineptitude, behind-the-scenes wheeling and dealing-- an often hilarious, colorful and harrowing look at one young reporter's experiences in the 1950s and 1960s Midwest, and how he came of age in "Da region."
Table of contents: title: Preface: Gutless, guilty and grimy (a thirty-year reporter's notebook); title: An inside peek at the ones who govern: A new suit ; Almost the luckiest mayor ; Missing; title: still missing ; The invitation got lost in a bar ; The phantom trailer park ; A huge difference; title: Cops and robbers and worse; title: some even elected: Reform candidate ; Stan "Three finger" Inkly ; Black gold ; The Kentucky rifle ; George Robert Brown ; Redheads trigger heat ; Illegal care ; Popesque, Po and Skinta ; The good lord ; Not meant for daylight ; Doomsday in Andover ; How to steal an election ; Just for fun ; Oil, a play on words.