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(1991)
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Book Details |
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| Author |
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| Selling Price |
$13.50
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| Genre |
Business |
| Publication Date |
1991 |
| Format |
Hardcover
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| Publisher |
Simon and Schuster |
| Language |
English |
| Extras |
Dust Jacket |
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| Plot |
Outspoken, uncompromising, and resolutely anti-establishment, Fighting for Air is a piercing look into television news - on and off camera - by a woman reporter who was there, microphone in hand, on the streets and in the trenches.
A dedicated and demanding journalist, Liz Trotta has covered many of the great events of our time, not as a desk-bound anchor reading a script but as a resourceful, working reporter with an eye for the crucial and a gift for words. Her news beats have included:
- Vietnam, where Trotta was the first woman combat correspondent for television news, repeatedly risking her life to report the war;
- Hanoi, where she covered the heart-wrenching POW release at the end of America's longest war;
Israel, where she bucked stern censorship to report the Yom Kippur War;
- Belfast, where she faced an angry mob of IRA sympathizers;
- Martha's Vineyard, where, in the murky aftermath ofChappaquiddick, her relentless questioning of Senator Edward Kennedy led to demands that she be fired;
- White Plains, Newark, where she covered the trial of Headmistress Jean Harris for the murder of Dr. Herman Tarnower, the Scarsdale Diet Doctor;
- Newport, Rhode Island, where she reported the prosecution ofClaus von Billow;
- Tehran, where in the thick of an anti-American revolution, she covered the unseen ordeal of the hostages held captive in the U.S. Embassy.
At home, Trotta reported on New York City politics and traveled the campaign trail with Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern, and George Bush. As a field reporter for both NBC and CBS, she worked with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, and Dan Rather. She interviewed Frank Sinatra, Sean Connery, and many other magnetic figures. But this book is much more than a chronicle of one woman's fascinating career. It tells the sometimes grim, sometimes hilarious story of television news itself, from its baptism by fire in Vietnam to the slick superficiality of today's coverage. Trotta saw some of her colleagues claw and connive their way to the top, while others sank into alcoholism and suicide. Her unsparing judgments of the "cult of the anchor" and TV news management are, in a word, devastating.
Liz Trotta is known as a maverick - a woman who broke into the all-male club of TV news and passionately, fearlessly pursued her profession. Her opinions - sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued, often unpopular, but her very own - display a keen intelligence and intensity of feeling shaped by a quarter century of covering world events. Trotta has captured the grit and the glamour of television news, the good times and the bad, the tough choices and the elusive rewards. If journalism is the first draft of history, then Fighting for Air is the second - an eyewitness account of a colorful life in turbulent times.
About the author Liz Trotta has won three Emmys and two Overseas Press Club awards and is a veteran of two decades with NBC News and CBS News. She earned her B.S. degree at Boston University and her M.S. at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. She now lives in New York City.
Jacket design by Koppel & Scher
Front and back jacket photographs from the author's collection
Author photograph copyright © 1991 by Sigrid Estrada
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| Personal Details |
| Dedication |
To the memory of George Barrett |
| Condition |
Very Good |
| Owner |
FamilyHistorySites |
| FHS ItemID |
20040771 |
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
PN4888.T4T7 1991 |
| Dewey |
070.92 B 20 |
| ISBN |
067167529X |
| Nr of Pages |
395 |
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