Bonnie M. Anderson Newsflash

Bonnie M. Anderson Newsflash: "Bonnie M. Anderson Looks at the 'News'

Call me old school. Call me old fashioned or a dinosaur, but I think government should be about protecting the Bill of Rights. Government should be truthful to the American public, and not about trying to manipulate the public and, in this case, also manipulating the media.

Bonnie M. Anderson won 7 Emmy Awards and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize during her 27 year career as a print and broadcast journalist. Now, as author of News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment, and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News, she turns a critical eye on what passes today as America's free press. In Newsflash, she details the decline of independence and truth in the media, which has gone hand in hand with the ever greater consolidation of the media in the hands of a few. She talks with BuzzFlash here about infotainment, journalistic ethics, preoccupation with the bottom line, ageism, and the politics of the news rooms."