Book Review of Tom Fenton's Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News and the Danger to Us All



Book Review Report on Bad News by Tom Fenton

Introduction

Life is beautiful! In order to increase the pleasure of life people indulge in different activities and hobbies. One such habit or hobby that people adopts is of reading books and watching movies. These books not only provide the pleasure to the readers but it also provides a chance to understand the variegated perspectives of personality of a person. On the other hand, it allows the writers and producers to sketch a picture of the society and a number of issues that is going on in the society. The aim and objective of this paper is also to talk about one of the aspect that is shown in a book. For this purpose the book that is selected is “Bad news: the decline of reporting, the business of news, and the danger to us all” by Tom Fenton.

Discussion

Tom Fenton is associated with the broadcast news industry from many years. This book is the reflection of all the experiences that he has gathered over the years. Fenton can easily be regarded as one of the most experienced reporter in America in today's world. It was in 2004 that Fenton retired from the profession of journalists and hence decided to write this book.

With the help of the title of the book that is “Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All” one can easily depict the the whole book is all about. In this book, Fenton sketches the picture of the real broadcast industry and also makes an attempt to describe the likely future of this industry. In his book, Fenton writes that there is ...