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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 An Intriquing Read Jun 09, 2010
By Jim Rogers
An interesting overview of the recent newspaper business wrapped in a well done murder mystery. It makes for a intriquing and thoughtful read.
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City Room? Stop the Presses! Jul 28, 2009
By R. Lorimier Mills
"TheLaughMakers"
What we have in Philip's Code is one great summer read. Cleverly cloaking his story in Mike Hammer-like murder-mystery form, what Clifford really does with this book is provide the reader with a deftly crafted, well-supported condemnation of the slow demise of what was once called "journalism"-- the art he learned on the job as a cub reporter and to which he would later administer life-support in his management roles at A.P. and U.P.I. Like the captain of the Titanic watching his once-proud and "unsinkable" vessel slowly slide beneath the waves, the author witnesses his once-uncompromising news business descend to its equally watery grave in a dot-com-controlled sea where it now seems doomed to reside forever. No longer the profession of dogged fact-gathers whose training, dedication and persistence could topple a presidency (Woodward & Bernstein anyone?) -- a business of men and women whose dreams were tempered by tradition, discipline and an unending search for truth, he was there to see it morph into a superficial world of ill-prepared "media majors" who somehow manage to rise through the ranks despite an obvious inability to recognize a story if it appeared uninvited on their laptops -- i.e., the Bush administration's White House press corps. At a time when TV's pretty boys and girls are all but interchangeable with their so-called print colleagues, Philip's Code is a fitting tribute to Clifford and his colorful peers -- those Damon Runyonesque, hard-drinking denizens of city rooms and crime beats at newspapers they helped keep afloat -- "rags" whose once-grinding presses have been silenced forever. Long after you've put down Clifford's book, you'll still remember them. And that, after all, is the point.
Robert & Shelley Mills
 Reviews from Publications Jan 19, 2010
By James O. Clifford
Here are some quotes from published reviews:
"If you had any doubts about bias in the liberal media before you started the book, they will be gone when you finish. Long after you've put down Clifford's book, you'll remember that. The San Francisco Chronicle is a frequent target. Particularly hit is the paper's coverage of the S.F.Fire Department's 'swastika incident' in whch the uathor shows that what was reported in the news had little to do with reality."
Robert Parkhurst, Chronwatch
"Solving the murder/mystery is ostensibly the vehicle Clifford uses to criticizes as he educates, to take some very serious shots at what he describes as the slow, tortuous decline of journalism."
Dennis Bianchi, San Francisco POA Journal
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