PositiveThe Washington PostA salacious oral history of the publication that reads like a night at a gossipy media party ... The book re-creates the feel of chatter in a newsroom.
Felix Gillette
MixedThe Washington PostGossipy, cameo-padded ... In an account as polished, risk-averse and page-turning as the prestige format that HBO gave rise to, Gillette and Koblin flip between the character arcs of writers and programmers who have been slyly guiding our national conversation and the suits they work for ... Like an HBO show, the book attempts to shape a compelling, emotional yarn out of those headlines ... Gillette and Koblin report on the pipeline from journalism to streaming but don’t ask what the process has done to journalism itself.
