"Every talk show host should read this book. So should every newsroom cynic. . . . 'Pursuit of truth is
not a license to be a jerk.' In all too many newsrooms, that statement would resound like a three-bell bulletin."
--Martin F. Nolan, New York Times Book Review
"[News Values] ought to be required reading not just for those who work for newspapers, but for all those
who read and care about them. . . . [This book] seems destined to become one of those slim but important volumes
people read for a long time to come."
--Richard J. Tofel, Wall Street Journal
"Fuller stays above the fray [of the many books on the media]: His is a deeply intellectual approach, one
that provides serious context to the highly complicated issue of how the news 'works.'"
--Duncan McDonald, Chicago Tribune Books
"News Values has the touch and feel of knowledgeable, authentic caring about the kind of journalism than can
help make society more cohesive, even human."
--"Monitor's Pick," Christian Science Monitor
The University of Chicago Press Web Site, August, 2000
Summary
News Values is a concise, powerful statement of the fundamental issues, ethical and practical, confronting
newspapers today. Jack Fuller not only makes those issues clear, but offers a provocative new perspective on questions
journalists should be asking themselves now in order to prepare for tomorrow.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: The Truth of the News
2: Deception and Other Confidence Games
3: News and Community
4: The Rhetoric of the News
5: News and Literary Technique
6: The Challenge of Complexity
7: Helping People Master Their World
8: Making Money Making Newspapers
9: Will Anyone Still Be under That Window?
