Into the buzzsaw : leading journalists expose the myth of a free press

Presents a collection of essays, from print and TV journalists, detailing the perilous state of american journalism in today's world by revealing their own personal experiences with censorship. Featuring a foreword by Gore Vidal, a penetrating collection of powerful essays, from award-winning print and TV journalists, details the perilous state of American journalism in today's world by revealing their own personal experiences with censorship and concerted corporate and/or government efforts to destroy their controversial stories and their careers. Writing in riveting, often gut-wrenching detail about their personal experiences with the "buzzsaw" -- concerted corporate and/or corporate efforts to kill their controversial stories and their careers, nearly two dozen print and TV journalists present devastating essays about the dangerous state of American journalism today. J In the thirty years I have been a freelance investigative journalist, I've seen books suppressed in varying ways, sometimes by the subjects of books, sometimes by publishers, and sometimes by authors succumbing to self-censorship out of fear of repercussions for telling the truth.