The Media Elite: America’s New Powerbrokers

A team of social scientists interviewed in depth 240 journalists at the most influential news organizations: the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, as well as the news departments of ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS.The result is an astonishing book, crammed with insights into how journalists’ personal points of view affect their daily coverage of issues and thus influence the direction of American society.