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Journalism under Siege in an Age of New Media
University of California Press
June 2007
On Sale: May 29, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 0520243420
EAN: 9780520243422
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In this vividly written, compelling narrative, award-
winning journalist Neil Henry confronts the crisis facing
professional journalism in this era of rapid technological
transformation. American Carnival combines elements of
memoir with extensive media research to explore critical
contemporary issues ranging from reporting on the Iraq War,
to American race relations, to the exploitation of the
image of journalism by advertisers and politicians. Drawing
on significant currents in U.S. media and social history,
Henry argues that, given the amount of fraud in many
institutions in American life today, the decline of
journalistic professionalism sparked by the economic
challenge of New Media poses especially serious
implications for democracy. As increasingly alarming
stories surface about unethical practices, American
Carnival makes a stirring case for journalism as a calling
that is vital to a free society, a profession that is more
necessary than ever in a digital age marked by startling
assaults on the cultural primacy of truth.
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