Author: SEARS, VAL
Title: Hello Sweetheart, Get Me Rewrite : Remembering the Great Newspaper Wars
Description: Key Porter Books, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1550131125. A Fine+ blue Hardcover, white titles to the spine. A sound binding, bright, unmarked pages. The DJ is Very Good+, glossy and unclipped. "In the 1950s, as veteran newspaperman Val Sears recounts, shenanigans of this sort were commonplace. In their competition to build readership, newspapers resorted to extreme measures - even hiding crime victims - for the sake of an exclusive story. It was the age of the great newspaper wars and Val Sears was a frontline combatant. His rollicking account of the events that made the headlines, and the behind-the-scenes skirmishes among reporters battling for a scoop, is often hilarious, sometimes surprising, and occasionally tragic." ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 213 pages. Fine+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 1550131125 Canada > Newspapers History Media > Journalists Biography Canada Media Journalism History
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Title: Hello Sweetheart, Get Me Rewrite : Remembering the Great Newspaper Wars
Description: Key Porter Books, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 1550131125. A Fine+ blue Hardcover, white titles to the spine. A sound binding, bright, unmarked pages. The DJ is Very Good+, glossy and unclipped. "In the 1950s, as veteran newspaperman Val Sears recounts, shenanigans of this sort were commonplace. In their competition to build readership, newspapers resorted to extreme measures - even hiding crime victims - for the sake of an exclusive story. It was the age of the great newspaper wars and Val Sears was a frontline combatant. His rollicking account of the events that made the headlines, and the behind-the-scenes skirmishes among reporters battling for a scoop, is often hilarious, sometimes surprising, and occasionally tragic." ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 213 pages. Fine+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 1550131125 Canada > Newspapers History Media > Journalists Biography Canada Media Journalism History
Price: US$ 35.25 Seller: Bytown Bookery
- Book number: 26689
- Book number: 26689
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