Goodbye to Newspapers? Book Reviews

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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20471

Goodbye to Newspapers?
By Russell Baker
When the Press Fails: Political Power and the New Media from Iraq to Katrina
by W. Lance Bennett, Regina G. Lawrence, and Steven Livingston
University of Chicago Press, 263 pp., $22.50

American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media
by Neil Henry
University of California Press,326 pp., $24.95

[kenny blankenship]

1. Who says literacy is necessarily a good thing? Cuba has a high rate of literacy

and Cuba is the epicenter of all evil, so my television tells me.

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2. Your hoose must be built on swampland. LOL!