My copy of Neil Henry’s American Carnival: Journalism under Siege in an Age of New Media is filled with sticky notes marking passages I want to share with my journalism students. But that’s not to say that Henry’s book is merely a textbook. It pulls together scads of lively historical and contemporary anecdotes about American journalism, offering fresh perspectives on its (...)
February 29, 2008
Books
Slow the Presses
American CarnivalJournalism under Siege in an Age of New MediaNeil HenryUniversity of California Press, $24.95, 326 pp.
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