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Fog facts : searching for truth in the land of spin / Larry Beinhart.
Van Pelt Library P95.82.U6 B45 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beinhart, Larry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--United States.
- Mass media.
- United States.
- Journalism--Objectivity.
- Journalism.
- Journalistic ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 199 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Nation Books, [2005]
- Summary:
- Everyone in the world knows what Bill Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky, or what happened to Brad and Jennifer or Katie and Tom. These facts, or events, or factoids, mysteriously capture the world's attention and there's a media frenzy.
- But there's a flip side to this. Fog facts. Important things that nobody seems able to focus on any more than they can focus on a single droplet in the mist. They are known, but not known; the sort of things that journalists and political junkies know, but somehow the world does not. A good example is the secret "Downing Street memo," which revealed that the head of British intelligence had been informed by his Washington counterparts that the White House was cooking the books on the information it was using to justify a war in Iraq. This was not news in America.
- Why is this? In Fog Facts, celebrated author Larry Beinhart offers a surprising and unsettling exploration of what the mainstream media is failing to tell us (and why it is failing to tell us) and shows how soft-core, PR-style political lying has been raised to an art form.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 The Failure to See What's Before Our Eyes 1
- Chapter 2 Lies That Blind Us 11
- Chapter 3 The Ethical Heights Disappear in the Mist 21
- Chapter 4 There Are No War Crimes When the Legions March 32
- Chapter 5 Disbelieving What We're Seeing 55
- Chapter 6 Don't Listen to What They Say-Look at What They Do 62
- Chapter 7 Who You Gonna Believe, Them or Your Lying Eyes? 111
- Chapter 8 Stealing in Plain Sight 123
- Chapter 9 The Soft Machine 134
- Chapter 10 The Land of Invisible Corpses 148
- Chapter 11 Out of the Fog 157.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1560257679 :
- OCLC:
- 61520527
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