Product Description: In this salient critique of the American media, veteran journalist Tom Fenton exposes the dangerous failings of our news organizations and the fundamental problems with how they present world news. Junk News is a stirring call to reform the faltering “fourth estate” and to take the blinders off our citizens for the sake of our securit...read more

A study of modern-day journalism presents the thesis that an emphasis on bottom-line profits, an over dependence on third party images and sources, and increased vulnerability to political influences have all contributed to a decline in the quality of news reporting. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.