Liz Trotta is the New York Bureau Chief for the Washington Times. A veteran of two decades with NBC News and CBS News, she is the winner of three Emmys and two Overseas Press Club awards. An alumna of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, Trotta has taught at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication and at New York University.
"An outstanding book, intelligent, engaging, brutally
frank."--Washington Times
"Trotta bears powerful and eloquent witness to the tortured state
of modern-day TV news."--Columbia Journalism Review
"Well drawn, exciting, and biting."--Kirkus Reviews
"An outstanding book, intelligent, engaging, brutally frank."--Washington Times
"Trotta bears powerful and eloquent witness to the tortured state of modern-day TV news."--Columbia Journalism Review
"Well drawn, exciting, and biting."--Kirkus Reviews
Emmy Award winner Trotta, who spent some 20 years as a TV reporter with NBC and CBS beginning in 1961, here tells the story of her career. She served two tours in Vietnam, accompanying GIs into the jungles, and is still haunted by the experience. Trotta also covered the India-Pakistan war, ``the Troubles'' in Northern Ireland, the Iran hostage story, the trial of Claus von Bulow and the Grenada invasion. Italian-American, Catholic, a strong conservative and a sharp observer, she often finds herself politically at odds with her colleagues, yet has never been accused of biased reportage. Writing with wit, freed from the constraints of her trade, Trotta skewers onetime presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy for his ``low opinion of the world,'' effectively harpoons ``oafishly macho'' Jimmy Breslin, ``small-town sorehead'' Dan Rather, the women's movement in the U.S.--with its ``special-interest crankiness masquerading as the people's will''--and Woodstock, acme of the ``druggy self-indulgence of the counterfeit hip world.'' (Jun.)
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