Undercover Reporting: The Truth About DeceptionIn her provocative book, Brooke Kroeger argues for a reconsideration of the place of oft-maligned journalistic practices. While it may seem paradoxical, much of the valuable journalism in the past century and a half has emerged from undercover investigations that employed subterfuge or deception to expose wrong. Kroeger asserts that undercover work is not a separate world, but rather it embodies a central discipline of good reporting—the ability to extract significant information or to create indelible, real-time descriptions of hard-to-penetrate institutions or social situations that deserve the public’s attention. Together with a companion website that gathers some of the best investigative work of the past century, Undercover Reporting serves as a rallying call for an endangered aspect of the journalistic endeavor. |
Contents
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Predators | 45 |
Hard Labor Hard Luck Part One | 57 |
Of Jack London and Upton Sinclair | 77 |
Hard Labor Hard Luck Part Two | 93 |
The Color Factor | 103 |
Hard Time | 171 |
Crusaders and Zealots | 209 |
Watchdog | 233 |
Mirage | 257 |
Turkmenistan and Beyond | 281 |
Notes | 297 |
Bibliography | 409 |
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