Final Edition: My Fifty Years in the World's Second Oldest Profession

by Joseph Rush

Plagiarism, deceptions, hoaxes and concocted quotes, including James Blair's New York Times's and Jack Kelley''s USA Today's deceits have plagued newspapers since long before the heightened nototiety achiever in the last year or so. A new book by veteran newsman Joe Rush relates journalistic misplays which got little attention except for corrections in the offending sheets and brief commentary from media critics. The humorous aspects as well as the pifalls of the journalistic goofs are not lost on the auhor of "FINAL Fifty Years in the Second Oldest Profession". The book offer a broad spectrum of in-the-trenches accounts of newsgathering, editing and production involved in the "daily miracle" that gets a newspape onto your driveway each morning.In-house publication traumas triggeed by erractic moon flights, fenzied Presidential elecions and a variety of disasers, including that of the presidentially and nationally tragic date of Jan.22, 1963, get their due in this volume that embraces the handling of major news of our times.It takes readers through a reporer's somewhat frenetic, sometimes devious and at all times probing career of excavating for news at every level of newspapes from bulky dailies and weeklies and competing freebies--all based on the vast experience of the author. I ads up to a journalistic volume with in-shop media tales not to be found elsewhere,including an abundance of anecdotes from the Evening News of Newak, N.J., of which he was news editor. Final Edition painfully describes the demise of the "PMs"--the afernoon dailies--done in by television with its ability to delived instant images and timely reports and by newspaper personnel blind to he compoetitive threat.

150 pages, Paperback

First published December 11, 2004