Arthur Kent: Surviving the Network News Wars (1st Ed.,1st Print -- SIGNED)

Description: Visit our eBay store to see more signed keepsakes & sports memorabilia—Autograph Attic: https://www.ebay.com/str/autographattic Risk and Redemption: Surviving the Network News War (by Arthur Kent)Viking Press1996 First Edition, First Printing Hardcover 9 ¼ height x 6 ¼ width 308 pages Signed—Photojournalist & Producer Arthur Kent signed this book on the title page with a thin black sharpie; addressed to a fan. All items are hand-signed; we never sell copies or reproductions of any kind. From AmazonIn the 1990's, the dumbing down of network news became the scourge of journalistic integrity. When the chase for ratings became more important than the pursuit of truth, America's television networks sacrificed hard-news coverage to a hybrid strain of entertainment-oriented magazine shows.In RISK AND REDEMPTION, award-winning foreign correspondent Arthur Kent reveals how he fought the management of NBC News in court over these issues - and won.First published in 1996, RISK AND REDEMPTION recounts Kent's journey from television stations in his native Canada, to conflict zones from Afghanistan to Tiananmen Square.Whatever the assignment – the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the aftermath of the 1988 Armenian earthquake, the conflict in the Middle East – Kent did what good foreign correspondents around the globe do: he took personal and professional risks to bring international news to viewers back home. For Kent, the risks paid off: he was named Rome correspondent for NBC in 1989, and won back-to-back Emmy Awards for his part in the network’s coverage of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing and the anti-Ceausescu uprising in Romania.It was pure chance that Kent was standing on a rooftop in Saudi Arabia during the opening hours of the Gulf War, enabling him to report the first-ever live satellite news coverage of missile versus anti-missile warfare for NBC. But the intensive international exposure the so-called SCUD-Stud received in the Persian Gulf led him not only to a post with “Dateline NBC,” but also to one of the most harrowing conflicts of his journalistic life.From deadly battlefields to boardroom clashes, RISK AND REDEMPTION describes in gripping detail the challenges Kent and other foreign correspondents face in their quest to deliver the news from conflict zones, challenges that include navigating guerrilla-held countryside, dodging sniper bullets, and coping with scandalous ineptitude and lies on the part of some network bosses.In one of the most controversial exposés in the history of the medium, Kent pulls no punches when revealing the shocking mismanagement that led him to sue his former employer for $25 million. After eighteen months of litigation, Kent won an unprecedented settlement package from NBC, prompting one media specialist to comment: “I cannot remember a case with such a public display of retraction.”

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