Book review: POISONING THE PRESS

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The author, a journalism professor at the University of Maryland, was an investigative correspondent for CNN, ABC and other news agencies fro two decades. This book is possibly his crowning glory.

It enlightens the reader about both personalities and how Washington D.C’s politics taint transparency, cause the spending of millions of dollars covering up misdeeds, and the appalling blind servitude of presidential aids, even secretaries.

After reading this superbly researched and documented book, those who believe in politicians will start thinking otherwise.

Most intelligent, well-informed people know that the first and foremost goal of all politicians is to be re-elected, and to this end they will do anything to achieve their objective.

Poisoning the Press is an invaluable book for anyone who wants to become a successful politician. It makes it crystal clear what he/she must learn the taboos of electioneering, their daily activities carrying out official business, and misrepresent the truth, sometimes convincingly, when delivering speeches.

The author has succeeded beautifully in writing an expose of Richard Nixon, a Quaker, and Jack Anderson, a Mormon, and to what extent they will go to harm one another.

If this situation had occurred in a totalitarian regime, Jack Anderson, the investigative reporter, would have simply disappeared and no one would ever be able to discover how it happened.

Thankfully, in the U.S.A mysterious disappearances of journalists do not occur, but equally unacceptable practices of plans to eliminate them are concocted.

If the American public think their politicians are above reproach and refuse to be bribed after reading this page-turner they will have a change of mind.

The author writes about what happened thirty years ago. Readers may, and rightly so, wonder whether politicians behave the same way today.

This is an excellent read, particularly now, considering the political events in North African countries.

Highly recommended!

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Book review: CHOCOLATE WARS.

Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic.Powered by WP Greet Box WordPress PluginThis meticulously researched book conceived by a direct descendant of the Cadbury dynasty, is an excellent read.

It is an engaging and informative book for all those who grew up eating Cadbury chocolates and other products that her Quaker ancestors developed.

Cadbury is a household name in the United Kingdom, and in many countries all over the world represents English chocolate.

Deborah Cadbury explains in her book, the evolution of other Quaker cocoa and chocolate makers like Rowntree, and Fry, how they competed for market share, how philanthropy was a prime concern for their workers and the population in general. Through lean and fat years they continued their philanthropy and even thought of the future of their workers by creating “trusts” which would continue to provide the services and funds for which they were created.

Chocolate Wars also explored in detail the development of the Swiss chocolate manufacturing industry, and how it evolved to become the world- market dominating identity. Nestle, with its head office in Vevey, Switzerland, is now the largest food manufacturer and distributor in the world.

The author explains in detail how Nestle, a German by birth, and Swiss by choice, started the company, and how it became the world-wide concern through recessions and acquired strategic assets all over the world including many in the U S A and the United Kingdom – two large and affluent markets with excellent potential for growth.

In this oeuvre there is history, and strategic management lessons that show how strong, disciplined leaders can change the fortunes of their enterprises, and how contented workers can help grow their employers’ investment.

Readers interested in history will learn about English tastes, and more importantly how in mid-19th century England was essentially a developing country.

The invention of the locomotive and railway helped change not only the country’s economy, but brought with it unprecedented worldwide development and commerce.

Naturally, England benefited a great deal from this invention.

Cadbury was recently acquired by Kraft to strengthen the company strategically all over the world. This was a direct result of globalization of world economies, and Kraft management saw advantages to buy Cadbury to expand its operations and distribution channels globally.

This well-written and flowing book can and should be used treated a  business case study by post graduate students seeking advanced degrees.

Highly recommended!

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Edward
February 10th, 2011 at 22:01

Reading stories like this makes me want to start some type of cool new business.

Diane
February 13th, 2011 at 07:57

I grew up with Cadbury chocolates. It’s unfortunate that now they reformulate their chocolates for tropical countries (as where I am from) to something that will not melt easily. Thus, it doesn’t have that melt-in-your-mouth kind of feel.

I hope they have a copy of this book here in the Philippines.

Jonatas
February 14th, 2011 at 14:50

I love Cadbury! Great post, bookmaker your blog.

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