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2005 Texas Book Festival: Truth & Lies in Journalism Panel
Robert Boynton, John Friedman, Seth Mnookin, Robert Rivard

From the 2005 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, four authors who have written books about journalism discuss the current state of the news industry. Panelists include Robert Boynton, author of "The New New Journalism," John Friedman, author of "The Secret Histories," Seth Mnookin, author of "Hard News," and Robert Rivard, author of "Trail of Feathers: Searching For Philip True."

Robert Boynton is the author of "The New New Journalism" and the director of New York University's magazine journalism program. John Friedman is the author of "The Secret Histories" and produced the Academy Award-winning documentary "Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie." Seth Mnookin is the author of "Hard News" and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Robert Rivard is the author of "Trail of Feathers: Searching For Philip True" and Editor and Senior Vice President for News for the San Antonio Express-News.

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1. They're very interesting.

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2. several times they talked about how expensive FOIA requests are and..

how they would black out so much of it that it was worthless by the time they got documents from the Gov.

Thousands of dollars for crap.