- Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Plume Books (28 Sep 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0452285313
- ISBN-13: 978-0452285316
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.5 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,999,521 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Truth About Media Bias and Government Corruption
1 Oct 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
In the maelstrom surrounding media bias in the wake of the recent CBS scandal and the Fair and Balanced Parody that is Fox News, this book is a welcome change. It covers critical stories about civil rights, the electronic voting scam and the real dangers to our troops in Iraq with candor that is unmatched. While most of the criticism is leveled at the Bush Administration, I consider this book to be a truly fair and balanced look at the issues the media refuses to cover on account of rampant corporate control over the major networks and the failure of journalists to do anything more than report what they are told by their corporate/governmental masters. I'm an Independent voter and found this book to be extremely enlightening. Don't read it if you have anger management issues.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Edgy comprehensive survey of under-reported controversies
1 Oct 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
A comprehensive review of the most intense under-reported investigations of recent years, True Lies mercilessly describes exactly how the mainstream media have deliberately sidestepped and even downplayed these unwelcome news items. These stories include the questionable promotion of unauditable voting machines (as a remedy for election miscounts?), the debilitating effects of exposure to dust contaminated from the detonation of DU-tipped weapons used heavily in Baghdad, and the FDA's blind and submissive role in "regulating" the DoD's compulsory experimental use of substandard vaccines on servicemen and women in the armed forces.
Crisp, poetic sentences and transparent, original investigative reporting are trademarks of GNN, the brash, aesthetically aggressive production company the authors co-founded, that spearheads the mounting campaign to mobilize a new generation of analytical, evidence-driven citizen muckrakers. Inspiring by example with a harrowing account of their own field tests to measure radioactivity levels around battlefield sites and junkyards in Iraq, Stephen Marshall and Anthony Lappé challenge their fellow media guerrillas to create "a highly branded, charismatic, and controversial" field of competition in the lagging, consolidation-driven information market.
True Lies is evidence that their ambitions are firmly rooted in the world of today's possibilities. This is a comprehensive survey of the most urgently relevant (yet publicly marginalized) of current events, news stories that have been reported only in the alternative press. In unfolding these stories and celebrating the triumphs of investigators like Mark Benjamin and Bev Harris, who have raised their voices against the deafening silence of a broadcast news system that seems to function as the Washington establishment's push-button intercom device, they document an ascendant revolutionary underground news culture fit to seriously threaten the media giants' rigged lock on America's public knowledge base.
Crisp, poetic sentences and transparent, original investigative reporting are trademarks of GNN, the brash, aesthetically aggressive production company the authors co-founded, that spearheads the mounting campaign to mobilize a new generation of analytical, evidence-driven citizen muckrakers. Inspiring by example with a harrowing account of their own field tests to measure radioactivity levels around battlefield sites and junkyards in Iraq, Stephen Marshall and Anthony Lappé challenge their fellow media guerrillas to create "a highly branded, charismatic, and controversial" field of competition in the lagging, consolidation-driven information market.
True Lies is evidence that their ambitions are firmly rooted in the world of today's possibilities. This is a comprehensive survey of the most urgently relevant (yet publicly marginalized) of current events, news stories that have been reported only in the alternative press. In unfolding these stories and celebrating the triumphs of investigators like Mark Benjamin and Bev Harris, who have raised their voices against the deafening silence of a broadcast news system that seems to function as the Washington establishment's push-button intercom device, they document an ascendant revolutionary underground news culture fit to seriously threaten the media giants' rigged lock on America's public knowledge base.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
A great current event jumpstart to alternative information
4 Feb 2005
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The state of journalism today is horrible and sickening. I've worked in the field for 15 years. When I was majoring in journalism in college the first rule of journalism was, accuracy, accuracy, accuracy. But that ethic has been used as an excuse not to report anything at all. What happened to Gary Webb (RIP) and what happened to the employees at CBS was deplorable. One or two inaccuracies, while unfortunate do not denounce the truth their stories present. This is what happens to journalists who try to bring you the truth, which is also why REAL investigative journalism in the U.S. is all but dead. It is absolutely essential today for people to find alternative sources of news, because mainsteam media is not there to inform you... it is there to control and influence what you think. This book is a great start for people to re-educate themselves on today's current events so they can begin to make sensible decisions and take actions in their own lives.
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