A last stand for high standards

MEDIA: American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media, By Neil Henry, University of California Press, 326pp. £14.95 On December 3rd, 2004, the BBC World satellite television network cut to its studio in Paris for an exclusive interview with Jude Finisterra, spokesman for the giant chemical corporation Dow. The world's most respected news-gathering organisation had a scoop. Login or subscribe for more.

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