[P2P-F] Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights

Michel Bauwens michelsub2004 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 08:15:11 CEST 2011


Dear Robert,

if you're interested we would be happy to feature your book as book of the
week on the p2p foundation blog, see
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/category/p2p-books

the below is a little to marketing-y, but if you're interested, let me know,
and I can explain how this works,

Michel

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Robert W. McChesney <
rwmcchesney at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Dear Friend, Acquaintance, Relative, or Person-who-somehow-ended-up in my
> address book,
>
> I am writing to you to announce the publication by The New Press of a brand
> new book I co-edited with Victor Pickard, *Will the Last Reporter Please
> Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix
> It*.
>
> The book includes 32 new essays on the crisis of journalism in the United
> States, written by leading scholars, journalists, activists and
> policymakers. The essays cover a broad range of approaches to the topic and
> viewpoints and offer an equally broad range of prospective solutions. The
> pieces are all written since 2008 and mostly in 2010, and include
> considerable ground-breaking research and analysis. A few were published in
> magazines or journals, but most were commissioned and written specifically
> for this volume. I have three essays in the book, two I wrote with John
> Nichols, and another, on Walter Lippmann, I wrote specifically for this
> book.
>
> We have put together a Hall of Fame line-up. Since many of them are
> terrific writers, the book is a great read. The contributors include (in
> alphabetical order):
>
> Craig Aaron * Bruce Ackerman * Eric Alterman * C. Edwin Baker * Yochai
> Benkler * Rodney Benson * Frank Blethen * Ryan Blethen * Jessica Clark *
> Mark Cooper * FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps * Geoffrey Cowan * Michael
> X. Delli Carpini * Leonard Downie, Jr. * Thomas Frank * Todd Gitlin * Juan
> Gonzalez * James T. Hamilton * Chris Hedges * Janine Jackson * Robert W.
> McChesney * Laura McGann * Pamela Newkirk * John Nichols * Victor Pickard *
> Shawn Powers * Michael Schudson * Clay Shirky * David Simon * Paul Starr *
> Joseph Torres * Nikki Usher * Tracy Van Slyke * Matt Welch * David Westphal
> * Bruce A. Williams
>
> The New Press is a non-profit publisher in every sense of the term, so I am
> assisting their publicity efforts by sending this email to you. If this does
> not interest you, I apologize for the nuisance.
>
>
> The first wave of reviews is already in. *Booklist* wrote: “This
> provocative compilation provides a groundbreaking introduction to, and
> thought-provoking evaluation of, the uncertain state of contemporary
> journalism. Bold, meditative, engrossing, this is an indispensable guide for
> followers of modern media.”
>
>
>
> The *Library Journal* concluded: “Anyone concerned with the state of
> journalism and the state of the union should read this thought-provoking
> book.”
>
>
> If you are interested in purchasing the book, please consider supporting
> your local independent bookstore. In Madison, I support Rainbow Bookstore.
> http://www.rainbowbookstore.org/node/11832
>
>
> Here are links to two online sellers, which have more information on the
> book as well:
> http://www.amazon.com/Will-Last-Reporter-Please-Lights/dp/1595585486
>
> http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781595585486-0
>
> If you are concerned about the crisis in journalism, I think you will find
> this book a must-read.
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Bob McChesney
>
>
> PS--My dear friend and frequent co-author John Nichols has a new book out
> from Verso called* The S Word: A Short History of an American
> Tradition….Socialism*. It is a fantastic book that has received rave
> reviews. Everyone I know who has picked up a copy has read it virtually in
> one sitting it was so engrossing. That was my experience, too. Because John
> has been so busy covering the Wisconsin 2011 uprising, he has not has the
> opportunity to do the promotional work this book richly deserves.
>
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Word-Short-History-American-Tradition-Socialism/dp/184467679X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1303313481&sr=1-1
>
> http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781844676798-1
>



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