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Knightfall: Knight Ridder And How The Erosion Of Newspaper Journalism Is Putting Democracy At Risk Davis Merritt 
Rating: 4.5/5 Stars Rank: 1037 With more than 40 years of experience with the Knight and Knight Ridder newspaper empire, Merritt is well positioned to analyze how that venerable news organization and American journalism in general are struggling to reconcile the role of the press in a democracy with the pressure to produce profits. He traces the history of the Knight Ridder newspaper chain from the 1974 merger of two media empires and analyzes the forces that have slowly chipped away at its ability to maintain the integrity for which it has long been known. Merritt points to changes in American culture, including the rise of technology and the decline in newspaper reading as well as the enormous profit demands of investors, which have eroded the line between the editorial and business operations of newspapers. Drawing on interviews and his own recollections, Merritt details the personalities and events that caused many editors and publishers--including Merritt--to leave Knight Ridder as business and editorial interests clashed. Vanessa Bush Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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