03395nam 2200601 a 450 991095231080332120240515220831.097808032303470803230346(CKB)2550000000037407(OCoLC)742513583(CaPaEBR)ebrary10476207(SSID)ssj0000536213(PQKBManifestationID)12232111(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536213(PQKBWorkID)10563592(PQKB)10734537(MiAaPQ)EBC3039393(Au-PeEL)EBL3039393(CaPaEBR)ebr10476207(Perlego)4518987(EXLCZ)99255000000003740720101213d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEmus loose in Egnar big stories from small towns /Judy Muller1st ed.Lincoln University of Nebraska Press20111 online resource (265 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780803230163 0803230168 Includes bibliographical references.Everything old is new again -- Crusaders -- Curmudgeons -- Too close for comfort -- This town isn't big enough for the two of us -- All the names unfit to print -- Never speak ill of the dead -- School sports : holy hyperbole! -- They don't make 'em like that anymore -- Coming home.At a time when mainstream news media are hemorrhaging and doomsayers are predicting the death of journalism, take heart: the First Amendment is alive and well in small towns across America. In Emus Loose in Egnar, award-winning journalist Judy Muller takes the reader on a grassroots tour of rural American newspapers, from an Indian reservation in Montana to the Alaska tundra to Martha's Vineyard, and discovers that many weeklies are not just surviving, but thriving. In these small towns, stories can range from club news to Klan news, from broken treaties to broken hearts, from banned books to escaped emus; they document the births, deaths, crimes, sports, and local shenanigans that might seem to matter only to those who live there. And yet, as this book shows us, these "little" stories create a mosaic of American life that tells us a great deal about who we are-what moves us, angers us, amuses us. Filled with characters both quirky and courageous, the book is a heartening reminder that there is a different kind of "bottom line" in the hearts of journalists who keep churning out good stories, week after week, for the corniest of reasons: that our freedoms depend on it. Not that they would put it that way, necessarily. In the words of one editor in Colorado, "If we found a political official misusing taxpayer funds, we wouldn't hesitate to nail him to a stump." Community newspapersUnited StatesJournalism, RegionalUnited StatesReporters and reportingUnited StatesCommunity newspapersJournalism, RegionalReporters and reporting071/.3Muller Judy1804580MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910952310803321Emus loose in Egnar4352691UNINA