- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: iUniverse.com (August 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1440152764
- ISBN-13: 978-1440152764
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
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The book is called Life in the Wrong Lane because that's where journalists live: in the one lane heading toward a catastrophe. Everyone who's normal is in the other lane, any other lane, going the other way. They're getting out.
Although Dobbs's travels, first for ABC News and now for HDNet Television, have taken him to many troubled corners of the country and the world, Life in the Wrong Lane isn't a travel guide about exotic places or a contemporary history of the events he covered. Rather, it's about all the funny, bizarre, scary, stupid, dangerous, distasteful, unwise, and unbelievable things that journalists experience just getting to the point of reporting a story, experiences that possibly are even more interesting than the stories being covered, but which never become part of the stories they finally report to their audiences.
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4.9 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews)
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Stories Behind the News from a World-Class Foreign Correspondent, Sep 11 2009
By Brent Green "Author of Marketing to Leading-E... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Life in the Wrong Lane (Paperback)
For many years I have had the privilege of watching parts of this book unfold as Greg Dobbs dispatched his personal reports of worldwide travels to family and friends, sharing remarkable stories behind the stories he was covering. Some of these reports were written close to the bone as Greg returned from distant locations, often exhausted, with details and back-story vivid in his mind. As I read his harrowing chronicles of a reporter covering Hurricane Katrina, cocaine trafficking in Columbia and bewildering third-world inconveniences of Russia today, I realized how little I understood about the enormous responsibilities and challenges of a heretofore romantic and mysterious profession known as "foreign correspondent."
These are stories of a special breed of men and women who lunge into the middle of major news unfolding, often risking personal security and safety in their quest for truthful witness and reporting of major events shaping our lives. These are stories of fortitude, daring, irony, inconvenience, risk, exhilaration and unlimited curiosity. These are stories that provide surprising and entertaining insights into the operations and demands of modern news media, a true and unvarnished presentation of how "freedom of the press" finds contemporary realization with instantaneous, satellite- and internet-delivered, 24/7/365 electronic news coverage.
This finely written book not only presents the craft of a seasoned writer and journalist, making it an inspiring and fun-to-read page-turner, it also provides an insider's glimpse into what it really takes to be a world-class journalist -- the personal qualities that go beyond mere skill at gathering information, interviewing, assembling, editing and delivering the news before a camera. Greg Dobbs' accounts demonstrate raw ingredients of success, not only in journalism, but in all professional endeavors, qualities such as tenacity, risk-taking and finely honed competitive instincts.
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Hated for It to End, Sep 7 2009
By F. Shook - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Life in the Wrong Lane (Paperback)
As I read Greg's book, I could almost hear him sitting in the same room, telling me his stories. Crisp, clear, conversational writing brings his real-life adventures to life. His writing makes history interesting, makes it feel spontaneous, and infuses it with humanity. I love his sideway glances at journalism as a profession as he hurries toward the next story. Along the way he validates the vocation's worth and underscores why journalists of his stature are among a society's most important eyes and ears.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Can't wait for the next one!, Sep 7 2009
By C. H. Sampson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Life in the Wrong Lane (Paperback)
I just finished Greg's book this morning. He left me wanting more...I'm sure that's what He wanted!!
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