Scooped!. David J. Krajicek

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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Page: 252
ISBN: 0231102925, 9780231102926

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When the New York World printed the first color comic strip ("Hogan's Alley") in 1894, its rival, the New York Journal quickly employed the cartoonist and ignited a war between the superpowers of American journalism. At the center of the controversy was the Yellow Kid, the bad boy star of "Hogan's Alley," who attracted hoards of readers to the papers. Because both papers vied for the artist and used sensational stories to build readership, they were soon called the "Yellow Press," thus yellow journalism was born.

After more than a century, with the onslaught of entertainment television programs such as A Current Affair, David J. Krajicek believes that sensationalized news is not only alive and kicking, but has mutated into something possibly more pervasive and destructive than in previous times. In Scooped!, Krajicek draws upon his past as a crime reporter for the Daily News in New York to show how "back-alley journalism" has distorted reality and created a nation "that knows everything about Amy Fisher but next to nothing about the development of our national criminal justice policies." From the television tabloid journalism embodied by such shows as A Current Affair to even the mainstream press's descent into sensationalism at the expense of solid journalism, Krajicek paints a disturbing portrait of a fourth estate more interested in the bottom line than providing thoughtful analysis or serious reporting on important issues.

From Library Journal

Unlike more academic content analyses of crime reporting such as Roy E. Lotz's Crime and the American Press (Praeger, 1991), Krajicek, a crime reporter for New York's Daily News and now a professor of journalism at Columbia University, gives us this personal, popular account. Convinced that the press could be "telling the truth less poorly," he explains the reasons for the "tabloidization" of print journalism and chronicles its contemporary descent into sleaze and sensationalism along with the TV news "dumbing down" to "infotainment." Because we know so much about Joey Buttafuoco, he believes, we know less about other things. One result is that the public continues to accept simplistic or even useless criminal justice policies such as "more police, more prisons" and "drug wars." As remedies Krajicek cites examples of newspapers that do more to explain crime and to provide background, analysis, context, and trends. This is interesting reading partly because we all have ideas about Joey, O.J., Rupert Murdoch, and such. Recommended for public and academic libraries.AJanice Dunham, John Jay Coll. Lib., New York
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.



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