{"title":"Eric Burns","description":"\u003cp\u003eERIC BURNS is an American journalist, media critic, and author of numerous books, including \u003cem\u003e1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Smoke of the Gods\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Spirits of America\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBurns was named one of the best writers in the history of broadcast journalism by the \u003cem\u003eWashington Journalism Review\u003c\/em\u003e and has won Emmy Awards for his work. He served for ten years as host of Fox News Channel’s Fox News Watch and began his career as a correspondent for NBC News, appearing on NBC Nightly News and the Today show. The American Library Association gave its Best of the Best award to both \u003cem\u003eThe Spirits of America\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Smoke of the Gods\u003c\/em\u003e, and Kirkus Reviews named \u003cem\u003e1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar\u003c\/em\u003e one of the best nonfiction books of 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric lives in Connecticut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEric Burns’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"all-the-news-unfit-to-print","title":"All the News Unfit to Print: How Things Were... and How They Were Reported","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eYou really can't believe everything you read . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA premature newswire report announces the end of World War I, spurring wild celebrations in American streets days before the actual treaty was signed. A St. Louis newspaper prints reviews of theatrical performances that never took place—they had been canceled due to bad weather. New York newspaper reporters plant evidence in the apartment of the man accused of kidnapping the Lindbergh baby and then call him a liar in the courtroom once the trial begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are just a few of the many wrongs that have been reported as right over two centuries of American history. \u003cem\u003eAll the News Unfit to Print\u003c\/em\u003e puts the media under the microscope to expose the many types of mistakes, hoaxes, omissions, and lies that have skewed our understanding of the past, and reveals the range of reasons and motivations—from boredom and haste to politics and greed-behind them. Reviewing a host of journalistic slip-ups involving Ben Franklin, Mark Twain, William Randolph Hearst, Theodore H. White, and many others, this book covers the stories behind the stories to refine incorrect \"first drafts\" of history from the Revolutionary War era to more recent times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"All the News Unfit to Print\u003c\/i\u003e is a rollicking joyride that careens through the ridiculous, the odd, and the serious malfeasances in American journalistic history and reminds us of the difference between news and facts.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eNeal Gabler\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eWalt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1683366441\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9781683366447\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Eric Burns","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43185554555096,"sku":"9780470405239","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43185554587864,"sku":"9781683366447","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9780470405239_FChigh_mockup_v2_1740151017_a151a5d9-de10-464a-8dfb-7258f41a69fa.jpg?v=1791999315"}],"url":"https:\/\/turnerpublishing.com\/collections\/author-eric-burns.oembed","provider":"Turner Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}