MY TIMES: A MEMOIR OF DISSENT by John L. Hess (2003 Trade Paperback){J9}

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9781583226223
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Publisher
Seven Stories Press
ISBN-10
1583226222
ISBN-13
9781583226223
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117283988

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Book Title
My Times : a Memoir of Dissent
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Media Studies, Corporate & Business History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Author
John L. Hess
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11.5 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.6 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-015513
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"[Hess's] remembrances should be required reading for journalism students, as he covers such topics as the importance of presenting a balanced view, how qualified a reporter must be in order to write about a subject, protecting sources, using press credentials and more. 'News is, after all, what the public does not know,' he writes. This memoir, while imparting information, is at once authoritative and engaging, and deserves a place alongside books by Gelb and other Times luminaries." -Publishers Weekly "John Hess's memoirs provide a rare, lively, highly informative picture of the internal workings of the world's most eminent and important newspaper, as it fills the space between advertisements that 'is charmingly known in the trade as the news hole,' so I learned. His rich and varied experience over many years also brings to life a good part of modern history, from a perspective that is hard to match." -Noam Chomsky "I've always admired John Hess for his bone-deep honesty as a journalist. Somehow, I learned more of backstreets from him than I did of boulevards. Even when it came to covering dining, he could detect the hype from the true flavor." -Studs Terkel "For most of his adult life John hess was an imperfect fear, even a monkey wrench, in the mighty crowd-control engine known as The New York Times ." -Kurt Vonnegut
Dewey Decimal
070.92 B
Synopsis
In the critical look at the New York Times from the inside, 24-year-veteran editor, foreign correspondent and investigative reporter John Hess offers his take on some of the most influential people in journalism of the last fifty years, including Cyrus Sulzberger, A.M. Rosenthal, Seymour Hersh, David Halverstam, Scotty Reston, Max Frankel, Anthony Lewis, Hodding Carter, Homer Bigart and more. He offers shocking revelations of truths intentionally buried alongside his own affectionate account of various campaigns for justice which found a home in the paper's pages., My Times is a critical look at The New York Times from the inside. John Hess worked at the paper for twenty-four years as an editor, rewrite man, foreign correspondent, investigative reporter, and food critic, from New York to Paris to the Middle East and back. In his tenure Hess rubbed shoulders and butted heads with some of the notable figures of journalism from the last fifty years, including Cyrus Sulzberger and his cousin Punch, A. M. Rosenthal, Seymour Hersh, Scotty Reston, and Homer Bigart. But this isn't a lives of the saints; reporters, to Hess's observation, mostly churned out unambitious, conformist copy, and when they didn't, editors would "fix" it. He argues that the paper deliberately fudged its coverage of Vietnam at a crucial turn. He revisits the close association of the Sulzberger publishing family with the world leaders the newspaper purported to cover objectively. Later Hess shows that the Times was far better acquainted with the jet-set than with its neglected backyard; few at the paper in the 1970s seemed able to pick out the Bronx on a map. My Times is not without warmth for the Good Gray Lady. Hess praises individual reporters and editors, and notes that working for "the most influential paper in the world" gave him a platform to pursue various campaigns for justice, a few of which he recaps here: the journalistic prairie fire he set in connection with the New York State nursing home scandal; his expos of shenanigans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and his revelation of corruption in several administrations at City Hall., My Times is a critical look at The New York Times from the inside. John Hess worked at the paper for twenty-four years as an editor, rewrite man, foreign correspondent, investigative reporter, and food critic, from New York to Paris to the Middle East and back. In his tenure Hess rubbed shoulders and butted heads with some of the notable figures of journalism from the last fifty years, including Cyrus Sulzberger and his cousin Punch, A. M. Rosenthal, Seymour Hersh, Scotty Reston, and Homer Bigart. But this isn't a lives of the saints; reporters, to Hess's observation, mostly churned out unambitious, conformist copy, and when they didn't, editors would "fix" it. He argues that the paper deliberately fudged its coverage of Vietnam at a crucial turn. He revisits the close association of the Sulzberger publishing family with the world leaders the newspaper purported to cover objectively. Later Hess shows that the Times was far better acquainted with the jet-set than with its neglected backyard; few at the paper in the 1970s seemed able to pick out the Bronx on a map. My Times is not without warmth for the Good Gray Lady. Hess praises individual reporters and editors, and notes that working for "the most influential paper in the world" gave him a platform to pursue various campaigns for justice, a few of which he recaps here: the journalistic prairie fire he set in connection with the New York State nursing home scandal; his exposé of shenanigans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and his revelation of corruption in several administrations at City Hall.
LC Classification Number
PN4874.H475A3 2003

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