Scooped!

Rating:
Summary: Desperately Seeking Scoop!
Review: "Scooped!" refers to the common journalistic practice of rival news institutions to beat the other ones with bigger, not necessarily better, but definitely more spectacular, headlines and stories. It is a well written and easy read, containing much needed and valuable information on the nature of journalism, crime policy and crime reporting in particular. Even though relatively small in size, the book offers many points for discussions, from journalism's moral obligation to step away from the recent tabloidization trend and cover crime in the "right" way instead, to the failure of the U.S. criminal justice policy. If not only for the entertaining anecdotes, it provides useful lecture for rookie journalists or journalism students, because almost all of them will start their career by covering the crime beat, occupying "the bottom of the reporting hierarchy, down near the obituary writers." It is a very provocative piece of writing, challenging newsmakers to take responsibility for their own work.

Rating:
Summary: Desperately Seeking Scoop!
Review: "Scooped!" refers to the common journalistic practice of rival news institutions to beat the other ones with bigger, not necessarily better, but definitely more spectacular, headlines and stories. It is a well written and easy read, containing much needed and valuable information on the nature of journalism, crime policy and crime reporting in particular. Even though relatively small in size, the book offers many points for discussions, from journalism's moral obligation to step away from the recent tabloidization trend and cover crime in the "right" way instead, to the failure of the U.S. criminal justice policy. If not only for the entertaining anecdotes, it provides useful lecture for rookie journalists or journalism students, because almost all of them will start their career by covering the crime beat, occupying "the bottom of the reporting hierarchy, down near the obituary writers." It is a very provocative piece of writing, challenging newsmakers to take responsibility for their own work.