TY - BOOK AU - Adam,G.Stuart TI - Journalism: the democratic craft SN - 9780195182064 (alk. paper) AV - PN4724 .J68 2005 U1 - 070.4 22 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Journalism N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface : the why and how of this book --; Introduction : reflections on journalism and the architecture of democracy --; Pt. I; Authorship and craft --; 1; Why I write --; 2; On being a writer --; 3; Why I write --; 4; In good faith --; 5; Maya Angelou --; 6; The reason for stories --; Pt. II; Journalism's essential elements --; 7; The nature of news --; 8; From politics to human interest --; 9; What's the news? --; 10; From news gathering to news making : a flood of pseudo-events --; 11; What's wrong with news? : it isn't new enough --; 12; News, truth, and a conclusion --; 13; Eyewitness to history --; 14; On the epistemology of investigative journalism --; 15; Tuesday was a good D-Day for Life --; 16; Getting the story in Vietnam --; 17; The legend on the license --; 18; How I broke the Mylai 4 story --; 19; Journalism of verification --; 20; The Boston hoax : she fought it, he bought it --; 21; The scientific way --; 22; In Plato's cave --; 23; The line between fact and fiction --; 24; News as a form of knowledge --; 25; Politics and the English language --; 26; The politics of the plain style --; 27; Reports, inferences, judgments --; 28; The narrative tradition --; 29; From The new journalism --; 30; The requirements --; 31; The dark continent of American journalism --; 32; The conceptual scoop --; 33; Notes towards a definition of journalism ER -