Books, Arts & Manners

The Media Elite: America’s New Powerbrokers, by S. Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman, and Linda S. Lichter (Adler & Adler, 342 pp., $19.95)

The Rothman-Lichter studies of media power and glory have become as indispensable to media criticism as beer is to sliced barbecue. Not that the studies please all palates.