America /The Powers that be
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Gaddis Smith, Foreign Affairs, Summer 1979
Summer 1979
In 1972 Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest significantly altered perceptions of the behavior of U.S. leaders in relation to the Vietnam War. This book attempts to do the same for an understanding of those who own, manage, and write and speak for the politically powerful news media. It is based on the same prodigiously extensive interviewing and effective use of anecdotes, and yet it is less successful because of the absence of a compelling, unifying theme beyond the incontestable assertion that the big media have altered the political system. The volume is really four books with chapters shuffled like a deck of cards: one suit for CBS, one for Time, one for the Washington Post, one for the Los Angeles Times (plus a single chapter-the wild card?-on The New York Times).
Jane Doe
12/10/2020
A MUST READ
"Halberstam tells us that he thinks of "The Powers That Be"--which began as a somewhat more modest enterprise than it turned out to be--as a study of the "rise of the modern media and their effect on the way we perceive events. (Richard Rovere New York Times, April 22, 1979)
This book is as relevant today as it was 38 years ago. Given that this was before the advent of the internet, is still provides a great sense of the history of print and electronic media, as well as how the media is manipulated by the Powers That Be. Nothing has changed other than the venue for our consumption of what the media dictates what we know of events and in Halberstam's own words "more importantly what we don't know".
This book is as relevant today as it was 38 years ago. Given that this was before the advent of the internet, is still provides a great sense of the history of print and electronic media, as well as how the media is manipulated by the Powers That Be. Nothing has changed other than the venue for our consumption of what the media dictates what we know of events and in Halberstam's own words "more importantly what we don't know".
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