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Lab Book Club: How economic incentives shape the news

Here’s the next installment of my interview with James Hamilton, author of this month’s Nieman Journalism Lab Book Club selection, All the News That’s Fit to Sell. Here we talk about Chapters 3 and 4, which use TV as a jumping-off point to discuss how economic incentives encourage certain kinds of news coverage and discourage [...]

1 comment | Posted by Joshua Benton | February 16, 2009 | 3:22 pm

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