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Truth to Tell: A veteran reporter's muckraker

Jim Clifford's 40-year career as a reporter took him from typewriter to computer. Not all changes were good. He's put what he saw in "Philip's Code: No News is Good News - to a Killer," a crime novel set in the news world. The book deals with murder - both of people and the principle of objectivity. Clifford believes journalism started to slip decades ago when UPI was near death and AP inherited a news monopoly. The book is available at Amazon.com

Thursday, November 12, 2015

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About Me

james clifford
Redwood City, Ca
I spent 40 years in journalism, a span split between UPI and AP. The demise of UPI was a great loss to journalism, one I chronicle in fictional form in my book "Philip's Code:No News is Good News - To a Killer." : Any similarity to any news agency, living or dead, was purely intentional. I retired in 2000, when I was freed of professional inhibitions and was able to write my muckraker. I saw stories that showed more bias than a used prom dress, to the point that some papers should be called "The Daily Double Standard, Conduit and Shill." With so many mergers, not so far fetched if truth in advertising laws were invoked.
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media history, crime novel, journalism analysis

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