Gay talese the kingdom and the power
Kingdom & the Power
Once upon a day, in the land of New York, there was a powerful and prestigious newspaper called the Times. It printed "all the news that's fit to print." Everyone thought it was the greatest and most perfect newspaper in the history of the world.
It wasn't.
Gay Talese's novel, The Kingdom and the Power, provides an inside look at one of the world's most prestigious newspapers. The level of detail in this guide is impeccable, garnered from a slew of interviews, documents, and letters. The Kingdom and the Authority tells the tales of Timesmen that ran the institution, those that worked at it, and those that will always be remembered by it. It tells of the many managing editors, of the woes of copyboys, of the mishaps of reporters, of the printers' strike, and of the verdict family of publishers, descended from the very first- Adolph Ochs.
The book is little more than a string of connected anecdotes- amusing to read, of course, but there is no powerful story until the last few chapters of the book. Still, it is just story, not central plot. It hasn't t
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The Kingdom is the inner sanctum of The Fresh York Times, a hierarchal universe; The Power is the influence that this microcosmic universe has on the larger universe that it boldly claims to cover ("All the News That's Fit to Print"). Until Talese's book, The New York Times, also known as "the paper of record" to the public, was the newspaper that put the prestigious industry standard in news reporting. Talese reveals the newspaper's inner-world in his visionary The Kingdom and the Power, which exposes the significant political and social influence of The Times on the other inner-world's comprising the real nature.
Talese's style, that earned him the distinction, according to Tom Wolfe, as the "real pioneer" of New Journalism, employed literary techniques traditionally associated with works of fiction in his nonfiction writing. Ironically, Talese left the stylistic constraints of The Times in to develop his
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The New York Times is far and away America's greatest newspaper. Its owners, executives, and upper-echelon editors know this and exult in the reality. They do not appear to know that the distinction is rather a dubious one, for to be America's greatest newspaper these days is a petite like being the best high-jumper in a school for paraplegics. The country's newspapers are onto lean days, and a sure sign of this is that they are no longer fit to attract the brighter fresh men into working for them, as they did in Dreiser's and Stephen Crane's or in Hemingway's day. At the moment it is safe to utter that no American newspaper is harboring a young James Thurber, an A. J. Liebling, or a Joseph Mitchell, let alone a Dreiser, Crane, or Hemingway. The New York Times could not even accommodate the talents of David Halberstam, its most exceptional reporter of recent years, who, feeling his reportorial talents restricted, left the paper to write for magazines.
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Kingdom & the Power - Softcover
The Kingdom and the Power
Gay Talese
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