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Also by Eric Burns:

Invasion Of The Mind Snatchers, June 2010
Hardcover
All the News Unfit to Print, May 2009
Hardcover
Infamous Scribblers, March 2006
Hardcover

ALL THE NEWS UNFIT TO PRINT
By: Eric Burns

How Things Were... and How They Were Reported

Wiley
May 2009
On Sale: April 20, 2009
288 pages
ISBN: 0470405236
EAN: 9780470405239
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction

Well-known media analyst Eric Burns looks at how journalists have misreported history in this follow-up to his critically acclaimed book Infamous Scribblers

In Infamous Scribblers, Eric Burns revealed how early American journalists represented and misrepresented the events and leaders of the day in coverage that was partisan, fabricated, scandalous, and sensationalistic, and sometimes stirring, brilliant, and indispensable. Now he puts the media under the microscope again, from Ben Franklin and Sam Adams through Mark Twain, William Randolph Hearst, H. L. Mencken, and Walter Duranty (arguably the most unethical journalist to win a Pulitzer) to the modern day. He shows how the media got history wrong and how those mistakes have been magnified and distorted over time, changing our view and understanding of the past.

Media Buzz

Good Morning America - May 27, 2009
On The Media - May 2, 2009