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Canaries in the Mineshaft: Essays on Politics and Media
Canaries in the Mineshaft Essays on Politics and Media Author:Renata Adler Renata Adler is one of the most original, incisive, and witty writers working in American letters today. Whether it be fiction, reportage, or essay, her work is marked by a truly extraordinary intellect and a luminous prose that is cool, precise, deft, ad penHtrating. In this collection of essays, Adlers wide-ranging reflections remain centered ... more »on two foci of interest: politics and the media. Covering the Watergate scandals, the Bork nomination, and the Starr Report, the essays in Part One analyze with remarkable clarity what actually happened and the threat to the Republic that each of these events constituted. In Part Two, Adler turns her attention to the media analyzing the strange world of daytime television, G. Gordon Liddys romp through the media world on his book tour, the ethics and aesthetics of Pauline Kaels movie reviewsand closes with an extended examination of the controversy with The New York Times occasioned by her book Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker.For anyone seriously interested in the ethics of journalism as it attempts to span the two realms of politics and media, Canaries in the Mineshaft is a feast for the mind.« less