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Title: Reporting Back: Notes on Journalism by Lillian Ross ISBN: 1-58243-109-4 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 04 June, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Journalism students will find this revealing
Comment: Author Lillian Ross has been writing for the New Yorker for half a century, creating profiles and essays which have won her an audience of admirers. Reporting Back questions the attributes which contribute to good reporting and good journalism, with Ross' years of experience backing pieces which blend humor with sharp observation. Journalism students will find this revealing.
Rating: 2
Summary: same old same old
Comment: Lillian Ross's contributions to the Talk of the Town and to the full-length piece are estimable, but she was never one of great talents at the magazine. She has a real flair, though, for recycling her old work. The more you reread it, the thinner it becomes.
Rating: 3
Summary: I was misled...
Comment: The title references 'journalism'. Maybe, but this is not weighty journalism. These are nothing more than puff pieces regarding (mainly) pop culture icons of the past and present. There is certainly nothing wrong with that - but call it what it is. I also felt cheated. It appears the original articles are not reprinted in whole, but are abridged, and only utilized as examples of journalistic writing styles by Ms. Ross. That's OK too - but I was fooled. (And if they are reproduced in whole - then I feel doubly cheated). And I was disappointed. I was repeatedly reminded that Ms. Ross is a great writer and journalist. Yet I find her writing to be clumsy and stilted. E.B. White she is not. Fine. Each writer has his or her own style. But a 'great' writer? I have been let down. I'm really not trying to slam Ms. Ross or her book. My dissatisfactions may be that since I don't read "The New Yorker" often, I am not so intimate with 'The Talk of the Town' section. I guess the column is merely for light reading and consists of 'fun' writings. Great! Just please don't continue masquerading it as journalism. When I think of journalistic writings, I think more of the Theodore White, William Shirer and David Halberstam variety. But these selections are more of the Larry King class - pure softball. In the end, it is an enjoyable book if you're interested in short airy articles on people such as Chaplin, Hemingway, Norman Mailer, John Huston, Benny Goodman, Robin Williams, et al. And there are also easygoing pieces on Adlai Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey, Robert Kennedy, and so on and so forth... A nice pleasurable read, but lacking depth.
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Title: Picture by Lillian Ross, Anjelica Huston ISBN: 0306811286 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Buying the Night Flight: The Autobiography of a Woman Foreign Correspondent: With a New Preface by Georgie Anne Geyer ISBN: 0226289915 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat by Edna Buchanan ISBN: 0425129942 Publisher: Diamond Books Pub. Date: August, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Miami by Joan Didion ISBN: 0679781803 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The View from the Ground by Martha Gellhorn ISBN: 0871132125 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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