Watchdogs of democracy?
Subtitle: the waning Washington press corps and how it has failed the public
By: Helen Thomas
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780743267816
Subjects: Press and politics; Politische Berichterstattung; Journalism; Government and the press; History
Description: The dean of the Washington press corps shares her personal manifesto about the responsibility of the press to provide quality political news coverage, arguing that reporters have increasingly failed to meet the challenge.
Notes: Includes index.

"A Lisa Drew book."
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments --; title: Foreword -- -- 1.; title: Journalism : a most honorable profession -- -- 2.; title: Eruptions of corruption -- -- 3.; title: Presidents & reporters : never the twain shall meet -- -- 4.; title: Press secretaries : in the bull's-eye -- -- 5.; title: Spinning the news -- -- 6.; title: Hail to the heroic leakers and whistle-blowers : and the journalists who protect them -- -- 7.; title: Newspapers are a business, too -- -- 8. The; title: FCC : fair and balanced? -- -- 9.; title: Lapdogs of the press -- -- 10.; title: Foreign correspondents in Iraq : déjà vu all over again! -- -- 11. The; title: greatest American journalists of our times --; title: Epilogue --; title: Index.