Fish Wrapped: True Confessions from Newsrooms Past

Fish Wrapped: True Confessions from Newsrooms Past (ePub)

David Sherman (Editor)

Guernica Editions, Spring 2020

228 pages

ePub (eBook)

ISBN13: 9781771834988

ISBN10: 1771834986

English

$10.95 Canada, $10.95 US

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Essays by Canadian newspaper reporters and editors on their lives in the news business before social media: "Here are their eulogies to lives dedicated to the fish-wrap business, many of whom, to stretch a metaphor, ended up as obsolete and tossed aside as the fish wrap they churned out."

Fish wrap. Birdcage liner. No one is more willing than newspaper people to embrace the insults piled upon our product.

What a rich, uproarious collection of stories about the world of journalism and its maverick inhabitants, all told with insight and humour that is timeless.

John Doyle, The Globe & Mail

Books by David Sherman

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