On the Condition of Anonymity

by Matt Carlson

Matt Carlson confronts the promise and perils of unnamed sources in this exhaustive analysis of controversial episodes in American journalism during the George W. Bush administration, from prewar reporting mistakes at the New York Times and Washington Post to the Valerie Plame leak case and Dan Rather's lawsuit against CBS News. Weaving a narrative thread that stretches from the uncritical post-9/11 era to the spectacle of the Scooter Libby trial,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252035992
• ISBN13: 9780252035999
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"