{"product_id":"hard-news-twenty-one-brutal-months-at-the-new-york-times-and-how-they-changed-the-american-media-9780812972511","title":"Hard News: Twenty-One Brutal Months at the New York Times and How They Changed the American Media","description":"On May 11, 2003, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e devoted four pages of its Sunday paper to the deceptions of Jayson Blair, a mediocre former \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e reporter who had made up stories, faked datelines, and plagiarized on a massive scale. The fallout from the Blair scandal rocked the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e to its core and revealed fault lines in a fractious newsroom that was already close to open revolt. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStaffers were furious-about the perception that management had given Blair more leeway because he was black, about the special treatment of favored correspondents, and most of all about the shoddy reporting that was infecting the most revered newspaper in the world. Within a month, Howell Raines, the imperious executive editor who had taken office less than a week before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001-and helped lead the paper to a record six Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of the attacks-had been forced out of his job. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaving gained unprecedented access to the reporters who conducted the Times's internal investigation, top newsroom executives, and dozens of Times editors, former \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e senior writer Seth Mnookin lets us read all about it-the story behind the biggest journalistic scam of our era and the profound implications of the scandal for the rapidly changing world of American journalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's a true tale that reads like Greek drama, with the most revered of American institutions attempting to overcome the crippling effects of a leader's blinding narcissism and a low-level reporter's sociopathic deceptions. \u003ci\u003eHard News\u003c\/i\u003e will shape how we understand and judge the media for years to come.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeth Mnookin is a former media columnist for \u003ci\u003eNewsweek, \u003c\/i\u003e where he also covered politics, crime, and popular culture. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate, Spin\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. A 2004 Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School, he lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328685019410,"sku":"9780812972511","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5a27c198-d481-4d7c-bd19-fb9c4c6efa48.jpg?v=1727748573","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hard-news-twenty-one-brutal-months-at-the-new-york-times-and-how-they-changed-the-american-media-9780812972511","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}