Monday, January 23, 2006
Last night I finished reading Stephanie Gutmann's, The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy. This book gets the highest level "strong buy" recommendation from the Solomonia Book Club. It should be given as a gift all across this great land (and Europe, too).
Gutmann is an unusual bird -- a graduate of the Columbia J School who seems to have kept her independence of thought and not gone native in the Kingdom of press-think. The book is an insider's look at just how badly the press covers Israel and also how it happens. Gutmann is a blog reader and her sensibility shows in the book. Blog fans will be familiar with the themes, but Gutmann fleshes it out with the nitty-gritty of a journalist's-eye view.
It's a real page-turner that both aggravates and explains. Highly recommended.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HA24Ak01.html
Thanks, Solomon. You just made a sale. I went to the Amazon site, looked over the reviews and descriptions, and bought it online. Here's to a fellow Columbia J-School graduate! Even if I had pursued journalism as a career, I never would've had the guts to write such a book.
Be sure to let me know what you think. I hope I haven't over-sold it. It really is quite good (and depressing).
Are you reading this, Stephanie? Ka-CHING!
Yes! I love each and every one of my readers...Now, if you would each send one dollar to this address....JUST KIDDING!!!
Thank you Solomonia for slogging through it, thank you for recommending it, thank you for maintaining this most lively, intelligent and informative blog!!! You run one of the best Mideast blogs in the world.
Best,
SMG
(and I really like that you have a security code that's not all squigly and hard to read.)