@article{467414, recid = {467414}, author = {Kroeger, Brooke,}, title = {Undercover reporting : the truth about deception /}, publisher = {Medill School of Journalism/Northwestern University Press,}, address = {Evanston, Ill. :}, pages = {xx, 496 p. ;}, year = {2012}, abstract = {"In her provocative book, Brooke Kroeger argues for a reconsideration of the place of oft-maligned journalistic practices. While it may seem paradoxical, much of the valuable journalism in the past century and a half has emerged from undercover investigations that employed subterfuge or deception to expose wrong. Kroeger asserts that undercover work is not a separate world, but rather it embodies a central discipline of good reporting--the ability to extract significant information or to create indelible, real-time descriptions of hard-to-penetrate institutions or social situations that deserve the public's attention. Undercover Reporting serves as a rallying call for an endangered aspect of the journalistic endeavor."--p. [4] of cover.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/467414}, }