Summary: The Ace in the Hole, in this case, is Leo Minosa, trapped in a cliff dwelling near Albuquerque, N.M. The publicity from his situation could build a winning hand for several people: Chuck Tatum, manipulative veteran newsman; Lorraine, his bored wife who dreams of city lights; Sheriff Gus Kretzer, boosting his re-election campaign; and young Herbie, a reporter who wants to make the big leagues....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ACEHarris, Duchess
Summary: "Media consumers rely on objectivity from their news sources, but that's not always a realistic expectation. Uncovering Bias in the News looks at the ways in which multiple media outlets can cover the same story in vastly different ways, the reasons for these differences, and how to recognize bias in a news report."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J071.3 HARSummary: Follows several for-hire scientific experts that are regularly featured in the media speaking about threats to the public from various environmental and man-made events.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DOC MERHarris, Duchess
Summary: "The 2016 US presidential election introduced a new term to the media lexicon. The Fake News Phenomenon examines the spread of bogus news sources, the reasons they exist, and the difference between media bias and "fake news." Readers are also provided with tips for how to discern the credibility of a news source. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 070 HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J071.309 HARSummary: In post-apocalyptic Seattle, a genetically engineered female bike messenger joins forces with a crusading journalist to expose corporate corruption and find fellow superhumans like herself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DARJones, Sandie
Summary: "For Stella, deputy editor of The Globe, the choice has always been clear. It doesn't matter how low she has to stoop--getting the best story is what she's built her reputation on. For Jess, The Globe's rookie reporter, the story stops when the truth does. But she knows that the dirty tricks of the tabloids will be hard to overturn. And when a celebrity is hounded by The Globe and pays the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JONGiles, Robert H.
Summary: When Truth Mattered is an account of a young editor and his staff painstakingly pursuing the truth of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970, a tragedy that has haunted the nation for 50 years and significantly changed the debate about the Vietnam War. The heart-pounding story captures the flash of National Guard rifles, the bloody aftermath of four students killed and nine wounded, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 378.771 GILCampbell, W. Joseph.
Summary: Did the Washington Post bring down Richard Nixon by reporting on the Watergate scandal? Did a cryptic remark by Walter Cronkite effectively end the Vietnam War? Did William Randolph Hearst vow to "finish the war" in the 1898 conflict with Spain? In Getting It Wrong, W. Joseph Campbell addresses and dismantles such prominent media-driven myths--stories about or by the news media that are widely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 071.3 CAMAttkisson, Sharyl
Summary: "The five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled and The Smear uncovers how partisan bias and gullibility are destroying American journalism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 071 ATTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult AttkissonSummary: This film is the first feature-length documentary about how health care professionals actively implemented and covered up the tortures in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and the CIA Black Sites. The film shows how the torture of detainees could not continue without the assistance of these American doctors. The little-known story is told by military, legal and medical experts and portrayed through staged...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shelter Island 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOCKean, Sam
Summary: "Science is a force for good in the world--at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the better of scientists, they twist a noble pursuit into something sinister. Under this spell, knowledge isn't everything, it's the only thing--no matter the cost. Bestselling author Sam Kean tells the true story of what happens when unfettered ambition pushes otherwise rational men and women to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 KEABrody, Howard.
Contents: The good, the bad, and the ugly : a story of two medications -- An ethical framework -- The pharmaceutical industry and the free market -- Patents, generic drugs, and academic science -- Research and profits -- Suppression of research data -- The quality of pharmaceutical research -- The drug rep: historical background -- The drug rep today -- The influence of drug reps: what the data show --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 174.2 BROBaldwin, Brooke
Summary: "CNN news anchor Brooke Baldwin explores the phenomenon of "huddling," when women lean on one another--in politics, Hollywood, activism, the arts, sports, and everyday friendships--to provide each other support, empowerment, inspiration, and the strength to solve problems or enact meaningful change. Whether they are facing adversity (like workplace inequity or a global pandemic) or organizing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.1082 BALSummary: Pillow talk: Two single professionals find themselves sharing a party line - and a whole lot more - when they get their lines crossed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iowa State University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 174.9 MERBartels, Erin
Summary: James Rich has a strange request for Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam: that she look up a relative she didn't know she had in order to deliver an old camera and a box of photos. Having lost her job after a botched investigation, she has nothing but time. At her great-aunt's 150-year-old farmhouse Elizabeth uncovers a series of mysterious items, locked doors-- and hidden graves. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BARGreenhouse, Linda
Summary: In this timely book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter trains an autobiographical lens on a moment of remarkable transition in American journalism. Just a few years ago, the mainstream press was wrestling with whether labeling waterboarding as torture violated important norms of neutrality and objectivity. Now, major American newspapers regularly call the president of the United States a liar....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREENHOUSE, LINDA GREElliott, Carl
Summary: In this lively narrative, physician and moral philosopher Carl Elliott traces for the first time the evolutionary path of the new direction in health care, revealing the dangerous underbelly of the beast that has emerged--a beast that sacrifices old-style doctoring to fit the values of consumer capitalism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 174.2 ELLTalton, Jon.
Summary: He's a man whose life is so intertwined with his job that we know him only as the columnist. He writes for a newspaper in Seattle, isn't afraid to stir up trouble and keeps his life--including his multiple lovers and his past--in safe compartments. It's all about to be violently upended when he goes out on what seems like the most mundane of assignments, looking into a staid company that never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALSummary: The Newsroom takes a behind-the-scenes look at a high-rated cable-news program at the fictional ACN Network, focusing on the on and off camera lives of its acerbic anchor, a new executive producer, and their newsroom staff.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NEWSummary: A journalist ventures into the decadent society of modern Rome and finds that his values are being destroyed, leaving him totally disillusioned.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DOLSummary: "La série se déroule à Paris et relate les exploits d'une bande de criminels qui se sont eux-mêmes baptisés "les Vampires." Musidora y interprète le rôle d'Irma Vep, une femme fatale dont le nom est l'évident anagramme de "vampire"". --Site wikipédia, consulté le 2 octobre 2014.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Classics 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF VAMContents: Introduction / by Alison Lewis -- Politics and anti-politics in librarianship / by Mark Rosenzweig -- Corporate inroads in librarianship : the fight for the soul of the profession in the new millenium / by Peter Mcdonald -- Librarianship and resistance / by Sandy Iverson -- A few gates redux : an examination of the social responsibilities debate in the early 1970s and 1990s / by Steven Joyce --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Juice Press 2008