The News Shapers: The Sources Who Explain the News

$ 103.95″Analysts,” “political scientists,” “scholars,” and “consultants,”–The News Shapers describes the elite club of individuals that the media approach for “inside information,” background, or predictions concerning the outcome of still-unfolding stories. Although they are presented as detached experts, Lawrence C. Soley uncovers their long histories of partisanship as former government officials or politicians, and charges that most of the shapers have no better credentials than the millions of pe$ 43.65