News JuNkie

“Every journalist in America should read this,
then quit or riot”
– Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
The
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An excerpt from
News Junkie
By Jason Leopold
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The Author
Jason Leopold is the author of News Junkie (Process, Los Angeles, 2006, from which this
excerpt is the first chapter. A former bureau chief of Dow Jones Newswires, he is now editorin-chief of the web site, The Public Record (http://www.pubrecord.org). Mr Leopold’s articles
have appeared in The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post and
Financial Times.
News Junkie - $16 – www.Processmedia.com - ISBN 0-9760822-4-1
© Jason Leopold, 2006
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