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Dubbed long ago the fourth branch of government, the American press remains to most of the general public an inscrutable enterprise whose influence and behavior are alternately welcomed and maligned. Neither civics courses in schools nor journalists themselves advance an adequate understanding of the complex workings of the press, and yet the proper functioning of a self-ruled society depends upon a media-literate populace - to act as the ulti...

The Inside Story on Newspapers: Hold the Press goes a long way toward revealing the foibles and strengths of America's newspapers, large and small. An enjoyable book that dispels myth about how the press works and why occasionally it doesn't.