Feet to the fire : the media after 9/11 : top journalists speak out / edited by Kristina Borjesson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Crisis coverage and the candy bar imperative / Ted Koppel -- The view from inside the ratings vise / Tom Yellin -- Chasing eyeballs and remembering Jessica Lynch / Tom Curley -- Everybody wants to be at Versailles / John MacArthur -- Grande dame, persona non grata / Helen Thomas -- Inside the house of power : a gatherer of unmanaged glimpses / Ron Suskind -- The revolution is being televised : you just don't want to believe what you're seeing / Paul Krugman -- Accountability's coroner / Barton Gellman -- Guerrilla at the Washington post / Walter Pincus -- Sound bite's truth / David Martin -- Dangerous nonsense and the Nuremberg rule / James Bamford -- Maverick foxhound, shadow-barking / John Walcott -- "The Vice President is lying," and other things the Deep Throats said / Jonathan Landay/Warren Strobel -- Blogger hits the hundredth monkey phase / Juan Cole -- Democracy and Islam : the dreams and nightmares / Anthony Shadid -- "It's mine, the whole Goddammed story is mine!" / Peter Arnett -- "What do you mean you're telling them to kill me?" / Jon Alpert -- Democracy and Islam: dreams and nightmares / Anthony Shadid -- "It's mine, the whole goddamned story is mine!" / Peter Arnot -- "We're not Mother Teresas in flak jackets" / Chris Hedges -- Marhaba Keefik! : "Two American soldiers died today" / Deborah Amos -- "You have two ears and one mouth, so you should listen twice as much as you speak" / Hannah Allam -- "Omar, what's going on?" / Tom Lasseter.