Table of Contents
An open letter to journalists, particularly those in North America 1
Preface 7
Part 1 A Requiem for a Noble Profession 11
Chapter 1 What was journalism? 12
Chapter 2 The seeds of destruction 26
Chapter 3 The credibility problem 47
Chapter 4 The authenticity problem 58
Part 2 The Autopsy of Benign Corruption 71
Chapter 5 Sophistry and other verified facts 72
Chapter 6 The unreliable narrator 93
Chapter 7 Lies and the lying liars who report them 117
Chapter 8 The business of spin 145
Part 3 What Killed Journalism? 163
Chapter 9 The miseducation of a profession 164
Chapter 10 Pseudo-journalism 172
Chapter 11 The gullibility of the conniving 185
Chapter 12 Sheltering the enabled 198
Chapter 13 Trivial pursuits 224
Part 4 Unmasking the Imposters 235
Chapter 14 Virtual, but not real 236
Chapter 15 The opinionists 247
Chapter 16 The masters of delusion 260
Part 5 Resurrection 269
Chapter 17 The school of experimental anarchy 270
Chapter 18 The intellectual soldiers 283
Chapter 19 The medium is not the profession 295
Chapter 20 The battle for truth 320
Chapter 21 Creating a science of journalism 330
Chapter 22 The keys to a better world 371
Glossary of Terms 376
References 378
