When government propaganda and corporate spin are increasingly presented as fact, as fewer and fewer corporations control the news, A Tribe of His Own: The Journalism of P. Sainath reminds us what the news media can be.
With a groundbreaking series of newspaper articles and a critically acclaimed book, Sainath has staked a claim as one of the world's most important journalists. A Tribe of His Own follows Sainath to the Indian villages he writes about, and explores his contention, that "Journalism is for people, not shareholders."