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Leonard Downie Jr. has worked since 1964 at the Washington Post, where he has been an investigative reporter, a principal editor in the paper's Watergate coverage, a foreign correspondent, national editor, managing editor and, since 1991, executive editor, succeeding Ben Bradlee. This is his fourth book. He lives in Washington, D.C. Robert G. Kaiser, who joined the Post in 1963, has been a local, national and foreign correspondent, assistant managing editor for national news and managing editor. He is now associate editor and senior correspondent. This is his sixth book. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Unsettling . . . a valuable and alarming book. <i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i> Important. . . . Downie and Kaiser offer valuable firsthand insights. <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> A strong contribution. . . . Downie and Kaiser write from inside the tent, and they write from experience. Their views are worth our attention. <i>The Miami Herald Unsettling. . . . <b>The News About the News</b> has a message worth reading. <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i> We needed something persuasively powerful. Here it is. . . . [This book] makes the case that news is essential, that the quality of news has been in decline and that letting it go on declining is not just bad journalism but bad business. I wish I'd written it. James M. Naughton, <i>American Journalism Review Downie and Kaiser are not campus alarmists, but serious men who do not kid around. . . . A thorough piece of reporting in the upright plain-but-honest tradition. Russell Baker, <i>The New York Review of Books A vividly written account of what is indeed American journalism in peril. It will grip anyone who reads a paper regularly and watches television. <i>The Times Literary Supplement</i><i> Influential. . . . A fascinating inside look. <i>The Boston Phoenix An insightful and penetrating look at how journalism has changed for the better and worse. <i>Booklist Refreshing and educational. . . . Any reader who cares about the quality of information available to the American citizenry is bound to learn something new, and probably unforgettable, from this insiders account. <i>BookPage An insightful and authoritative look at how corporate financial demands have consistently eroded newsroom budgets with a corresponding cutback in the coverage of the news. <i>The Sacramento Bee Brief yet meaningful. . . . An important, up-to-date study that should be required reading for . . . serious consumers of the news. <i>Publishers Weekly
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