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Walter's Perspective offers a unique glimpse into the rough-and-tumble Chicago media business as seen through the eye of 1 of its famous players. From his first media job working as a legman to his later role as a media anchor and politics commentator, Jacobson battled along the front lines of an industry undergoing remarkable changes. While it is in the end Jacobson's account, a memoir of a long and recognized (and sometimes highly questionable) career, additionally it is an insider's profile of the internal workings of Chicago tv set news, including the ratings games, the process of defining media and choosing testimonies, the media's vitality and its own failures, and the meddling by corporate and network professionals. Like a reporter, Jacobson was regularly contentious and confrontational. Yet it was this gutsy frame of mind that put him near the top of the news headlines game, allowing him to get inside home elevators Chicago administration and politics, and helped him become the first local tv set reporter to be granted a visa to go to Communist China. Jacobson recollects his interactions with Chicago mayors Richard J. and Richard M. Daley, Jane Byrne, Harold Washington, and Rahm Emanuel; recounts his coverage of such fascinating news testimonies as the violent 1968 Democratic Country wide Convention and the execution of convicted mass murderer John Wayne Gacy; and recalls his reporting on and interviews with Louis Farrakhan, governors George Ryan and Pole Blagojevich, and Barack Obama. The publication is shared by Sourthern Illinois College or university Press.
