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Summary: All the news that's fit...and more!
Review: 85% of this book-on-tape is the type of news centered memoire that you were probably hoping it would be. Stahl has a unique perspective on some of the major political developments of the last 30 years. This is her place to reflect on them. Among her stories are some particularly interesting behind-the-scenes accounts of the news industry itself, such as her fued with Daniel Shore.The other 15% is what seemed to be a slapped-together account of her personal life. These (thankfully) brief interruptions seem somewhat forced and distracted. Perhaps this is a result of a poor editing job as the book was converted from print to tape, but I have a feeling that Stahl set out to write about press and politics and her publisher demanded that she flesh out her account with some "human" stories. While the end result is interesting and satsifying, it also leaves the impression that Stahl is somewhat shallow. She seems to put her job before her personal life and her career before her job. She seems all-too ready to slink towards info-tainment when the industry is moving in that direction. The overall effect is not flattering on the state of contemporary TV news. I don't think that's her point, but that's how I felt when I finished listening. Despite its flaws, I enjoyed "Reporting Live." It was certainly a worthwhile choice for my last long car trip.
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Summary: All the news that's fit...and more!
Review: 85% of this book-on-tape is the type of news centered memoire that you were probably hoping it would be. Stahl has a unique perspective on some of the major political developments of the last 30 years. This is her place to reflect on them. Among her stories are some particularly interesting behind-the-scenes accounts of the news industry itself, such as her fued with Daniel Shore. The other 15% is what seemed to be a slapped-together account of her personal life. These (thankfully) brief interruptions seem somewhat forced and distracted. Perhaps this is a result of a poor editing job as the book was converted from print to tape, but I have a feeling that Stahl set out to write about press and politics and her publisher demanded that she flesh out her account with some "human" stories. While the end result is interesting and satsifying, it also leaves the impression that Stahl is somewhat shallow. She seems to put her job before her personal life and her career before her job. She seems all-too ready to slink towards info-tainment when the industry is moving in that direction. The overall effect is not flattering on the state of contemporary TV news. I don't think that's her point, but that's how I felt when I finished listening. Despite its flaws, I enjoyed "Reporting Live." It was certainly a worthwhile choice for my last long car trip.
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Summary: Supeficial journalism.
Review: Another I-was-there case of popular, even if stylistically readable, Washington chatter. One example will suffice to show how astonishing is Ms. Stahl's ignorance of elementary historical facts: improving even on those few who question the reality of the Holocaust, she writes that during World War II it was the Poles that exterminated the Jews (though she graciously allows that the German Nazis "helped"). I anxiously await this top journalist's analysis of how the British won the American Revolution.
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Summary: Who told her to write a book?
Review: as self-aggrandizing as her recent reporting. Well, at least now she's putting words in her own mouth, not her interview subjects.'
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Summary: Lack of knowledge, plenty of stupidity
Review: Book is totaly 'unreadable'. One bumbs every page on the totaly false sentences and misconceptions. For example L.Stahl thinks that we, Judes were kiled by Polish when in fact We and Polish people (not to mention Rusians, Gipsies etc.) were killed by Germans - namely Nazi Germans. Who says that this not happened is a liar and ought to be prosecuted as nazi. As for the political writer such ignorance ought to be punishable. But even if we forget about this there are plenty of other facts that say that she is rude, badly educated and just stupid woman. SHAME!
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Summary: Dull and uninteresting ¿ waste of money and natural resource
Review: Expected some insider info on how CBS is cooking news for us, conflicts between journalists competing for spotlight etc. I wanted something personal and maybe emotional from her but instead I found boring PR shtick from an aging journalist. Controversy with Ukrainians or Poles just made me wonder how good was her research.
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Summary: Interesting overview of the times and people of that period
Review: Generally, I thought it was quite an interesting book. I particularly liked the snippets of information about the presidents and staffs of Carter, Reagan, and Bush. Also, it gives a pretty good inside look at TV New. Beyond that, the basic impression I came away with was that Ms. Stahl was a very driven, unhappy woman. One should be grateful that we aren't all that driven.
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Summary: Interesting Read - But Reliable?
Review: I am sure she is preaching to the choir about her self-important life, but take it all with a grain of salt from the woman who still cannot undertand us 'normal' folk. "I predict historians are going to be totally baffled by how the American people fell in love with [Ronald Reagan] and followed him the way we did." - CBS News reporter Lesley Stahl, Jan. 11, 1989
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Summary: So much to work with, but....
Review: I bought this book because Leslie Stahl has been at the forefront of all the big stories since I've been alive. One would naturally assume she had a huge "library" to pull stories from, and she does. The book is chock full of great anecdotes, but they seem to loose something in the telling, it feels like something is missing. As a reader, I enjoy being able to loose myself in the story and feel like I am along for the ride, however, I never felt that while reading this book. Like I mentioned, there are many, many great stories, however, they all seem to fall a bit flat in the telling. The book also jumps from personal anecdote to political anecdote, it does not flow smoothly. Regarding the personal stories, since the book never really goes too deep, it is hard to come away from this book without feeling like "thank gosh she wasn't my mother".
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Summary: An interesting inside look at the television news business
Review: I enjoyed this look at television news from a woman's point of view. I've always admired Lesley Stahl, but knew little about her personal life. Her book is honest, and she is very forthcoming about how she was more career-driven than family-driven, and left much of the childrearing to her husband. It was slow in a few spots (harping quite a bit on Ronald Reagan) but all-in-all well worth reading!
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