February 7, 2019 By Monica Showalter
Jill Abramson, the former New York Times editor who carries a little plastic Obama doll in her purse for comfort, has written quite a book, trying to describe the news industry the same way the great David Halberstam once did in The Powers that Be in the 1970s. She examines four news outfits, plus Facebook, in an attempt to replicate Hlberstam's tome about how the news industry evolved n her new book, titled Merchants of Truth. Her conclusion? Legacy media rule. Upstart media have no value.
After a big buildup from this, she's got a problem: she's being accused of plagiarism.............Read more
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