9781400061549 - Fat Man Fed Up: How American Politics Went Bad von Germond, Jack W. (12 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. xii, [2], 224, [2] pages. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. Some pencil marginal marks, underlining, and comments noted--some have been easily erased. Germond began his career in 1951 writing for the Evening News in Monroe, Michigan. In 1953, he moved to Gannett's Rochester Times-Union, and he was chief of Gannett's Washington bureau from 1969 until 1973. In 1974, he joined the Washington Star, becoming a syndicated columnist and national editor, and went on to the Baltimore Sun when the Washington Star folded. On television, Germond began appearing on Meet the Press in 1972 and The Today Show in 1980. He was a fixture on The McLaughlin Group from the show's inception 1982, acting as a "liberal voice" against conservative guests such as Pat Buchanan and Robert Novak. When The McLaughlin Group was parodied on Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s, Germond was portrayed by Chris Farley and John Goodman. Germond left the program in 1996, citing a decline in the show's discourse and frustration with John McLaughlin's heavy-handed moderation. He was later featured as a panelist on the PBS program Inside Washington. He authored several political books with Jules Witcover. Germond retired in 2000. For more than forty years, Jack Germond has been covering politics for Gannett newspapers, the Washington Star, and the Baltimore Sun, and talking politics on the Today show, The McLaughlin Group, and Inside Washington. Now, in Fat Man Fed Up, Germond confronts the most critical issues raised by our election process and offers a scathing but wry polemic about what's wrong with American politics. Is there any connection between what happens in campaigns and what happens in government? And if not, where does the blame for the discontent lie? Was Tocqueville right? Do we get the leaders we deserve? Indeed, according to Germond, the politicians aren't the only ones to blame, or even the chief culprits. He describes how he and his colleagues in the news media have been guilty of dumbing-down the political process, and how the voters are too apathetic to demand better coverage and better results. Instead, they simply turn away and too often end up enduring third-rate presidents. This no-sacred-cows manifesto faces the problems many are reluctant to address: Polls and how they are used and abused by politicians and press to mislead gullible voters. The critical failure of the press to accurately portray figures in the political realm, from Eugene McCarthy to Barbara Bush to Al Sharpton. How the complaints about liberal bias in the press miss the real point: whether that bias, if it exists, colors the way editors and reporters work. The staggering influence of television, and the networks' inability to provide anything but the most simplistic coverage of politics. The big lie school of campaigning. From Where's the beef? to compassionate conservatism, the politics of empty slogans has always placed noise above nuance: Say anything loudly enough and long enough, and voters are bound to mistake it for the truth. Along the way, Germond illustrates his arguments by drawing from his war chest of priceless anecdotes from decades in the business. With his inimitable combination of incisive journalism and sardonic and witty straight talk, Germond guides us through the fog created by candidates and the media. In this timely, outrageous, and compulsively readable book, no one is let off the hook. Fat Man Fed Up is a bracing look at how we never seem to get the truth about the people we're electing. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].