Eric Boehlert

Lapdogs (eBook, ePUB)

How the Press Lay Down for the Bush White House

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In blistering prose, Eric Boehlert reveals how, time after time, the press chose a soft approach to covering the government, and as a result reported and analyzed crucial events incompletely and even inaccurately. From WMDs to Valerie Plame to the NSA's domestic spying, mainstream fixtures such as The New York Times, CBS, CNN, and Time magazine too often ignored the administration's missteps and misleading words, and did not call out the public officials who betrayed the country's trust. Throughout both presidential campaigns and the entire Iraq war to date, the media acted as a virtual mouthpiece for the White House, giving watered-down coverage of major policy decisions, wartime abuses of power, and egregious mistakes -- and sometimes these events never made it into the news at all. Finally, in Lapdogs, the press is being held accountable by one of its own.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743299169
• Artikelnr.: 37840083

Autorenporträt

Eric Boehlert was an award-winning journalist and writer who has written extensively about media and politics. He was a senior fellow for Media Matters for America and the author of Lapdog: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush. A former writer for Salon and Rolling Stone, he began a digital newsletter in 2020 called Press Run, a venue for his progressive commentary regarding the political press.