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3) The truth
Author
Series
Discworld volume 25
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The truth will out. or at least it's going to try to, any minute. New printing technologv means that words just won't obediently stay nailed down like usual. They can now be taken apart and used to make other words. Which is downright dangerous. There's a very real threat of news getting out there. Of people finding out what's really going on. And the power that be aren't happy - they want that to be far from the truth. If they are to call a halt...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Lubji Hoch breaks the bonds of his humble beginnings as the son of an illiterate Jewish peasant, escapes the Nazis, changes his name to Richard Armstrong, becomes a decorated officer in the British army, and ultimately finds himself in Berlin.
8) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Clever Company
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Early in this brisk dramedy, a jaded newsman laments that some reporters furnish the manure while some grow the flowers. Editor Joe Randall's newspaper is suddenly in the manure biz. To increase readership and revenues, he's pressured against his principles to come up with a sensationalist tale or two. So Randall revisits a love-nest murder of years past. Circulation soars. But living people - real people - involved in the story are victimized. Randall...
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
He wanted power. Oliver Russell is fated to rise to the pinnacle of power, President of the United States. She wanted revenge. Leslie Stewart is his betrayed fiancee. Amassing her own media empire, on her fortieth birthday, she looks back. What went wrong?
11) With heart
Author
Publisher
Thorndike
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
In Oklahoma, 1938, though scarcity and hardship have taken their toll on the spirit of the nation, one young woman still dares to dream. Kathleen Dolan has high hopes for investment in a newspaper, but then trouble strikes.
Author
Series
Emma Lord mystery volume 19
Language
English
Description
Its a quiet morning at the Advocate until the mail brings shocking news: a formal obituary for Alpiner Elmer Nystrom. As far as anyone knows, Elmer is alive and well. But he hasnt turned up for work, so Emma and her unstoppable House & Home editor, Vida Runkel, rush to the Nystrom home, where they find Elmers lifeless body in the henhouse, half buried under straw. Not only has he been murdered, but his obituary had been mailed...
Author
Series
Nikki and Deja volume 3
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Nikki and her best friend, Deja, start a newsletter about what is happening on their street and in their school, they focus more on writing exciting stories than on finding the truth.
14) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper tycoon whose life is investigated by a magazine reporter trying to discover the meaning of Kane's dying word: "Rosebud".
Author
Series
Capital crimes volume 21
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When two women are found murdered in the nation's capital, crime reporter Joe Wilcox invents a serial killer stalking the city, but the sudden appearance of his mentally ill brother, Michael, leads Joe to suspect that Michael could be the real thing.
16) The golden age
Author
Publisher
BDD Audio
Pub. Date
p2000.
Language
English
Description
The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and sympathetic witnesses to these events are Caroline Sanford, Hollywood actress turned Washington D.C., newspaper publisher, and Peter Sanford, her nephew and publisher...
17) Easy to wed
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
The "Morning Star" has a big problem. J.B. Allenbury is a rich and mighty man who will sue the paper for $2 million because of an article which says that his daughter, Connie, is nymphomaniac and only after married men. Reporter Bill Chandler is sent after Connie to prove that the story is true. The only problem Bill has is that he's not married, at least not yet.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
This documentary chronicles the transformation of The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk, as the Internet redefines the media industry by surpassing print as the main source of news. At the heart of the film is the burning question on the minds of everyone who cares about a rigorous American press, Times lover or not: what will happen if the fast-moving future of media leaves behind the fact-based, original reporting...
19) Citizen Kane
Series
Criterion collection volume 1104
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie. In telling the story of the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of a William Randolph Hearst-like newspaper magnate named Charles Foster Kane, Welles not only created the definitive portrait of American megalomania, he also...
20) Citizen Kane
Series
Criterion collection volume 1104
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie. In telling the story of the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of a William Randolph Hearst-like newspaper magnate named Charles Foster Kane, Welles not only created the definitive portrait of American megalomania, he also...
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