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Lädt ... The Spoilervon Annalena McAfee
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. An entertaining and perceptive investigation into the changing nature of newspapers at a pivotal point of their history, after many years of working in journalism, the author draws on her experience to write a novel set in 1997 that as part of its plot sees the change from paper to online. But the main focus is the contrast between old and new journalism in the shape of Tamara Sim, a young, relatively naïve, journalist who usually produces short listings for her newspaper, but is unexpectedly given the opportunity to interview the elderly, experienced and well-respected reporter, Honor Tait. Their sparring and antagonism over the interview and the changing approach to reporting on celebrities gives a serious counterpoint to the humorous portrayal of the jealousy and backbiting of the newsroom as the members scramble to improve or protect their own position and reputation This is an amusing novel which satirises the different aspects of the world of journalsim through the scenario of a young, ambitious but essentially shallow gossip columnist interviewing an aging foreign correspondent whose career started during the Spanish Civil War and included coverage of the liberation of Buchenwald, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, as well as meetings with Castro, Che Guavara, George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway. Though it was slightly longer than was really necessary this is a very enjoyable book. The characters of Honor Tait, the elderly and accomplished correspondent, and Tamara Sim, who thrives in coverage of vacuous celebrities but barely knows which party is in government, are very finely drawn and skilfully contrasted. Zeige 5 von 5 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
A dark hyper-comedy set in London in the late 1990s during the last gasp of the newspaper wars just before the dot-com tidal wave--about two female journalists at opposite ends of their life and work who become locked in a fierce tango of wills and whose lives are forever changed by their (not-so-) brief (head-on) encounter. At the novel's center--a legendary prize-winning war correspondent (called in her day "The Newsroom Dietrich" because of her luminescent beauty) now in her eighties, at the end of her career, who, over the decades, as the intrepid golden girl of the press, has been on the front lines or in the foxholes of every major theater of war of the twentieth century (Madrid; Normandy; Buchenwald; Berlin; Algiers; Korea; Vietnam). She is recognized everywhere (she finds fame mortifying these days); lionized for her fearless, politically informed, objective reporting; and now, though fragile and in an accelerating decline, her goddess-like beauty long gone, her style of writing--unbiased reportage--obsolete in the age of New Journalism, is rediscovered with the reissue of her frontline journalism, and the about-to-be-published collection of her Pulitzer Prize-winning dispatches. The other, a young up-and-not-so-coming reporter in her twenties; a degree in media studies, a freelance editor who compiles A-lists (Ten Best / Ten Worst; What's In / What's Out) for a down-market magazine of a newspaper specializing in celebrity gossip, unexpectedly sent to write a feature on the venerated "doyenne of British journalists"--to get the dirt on her glittering Hollywood days, her many affairs and three marriages...What ensues is a high-stakes, high-risk battle of wit and wills as lives are shaken, secrets unearthed, and headlines blast (unconfirmed) "truths," with one newspaper--the spoiler--playing off against another in a ruthless, desperate grab for sensation and circulation. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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