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How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy
Vanderwyk & Burnham
February 2007
On Sale: January 28, 2007
176 pages ISBN: 0979176107 EAN: 9780979176104 Paperback
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Non-Fiction Political
What happens when Washington, D.C. pundits and journalists
run in the same social circles as the powerful people they
cover? When the President and his administration trade press
access for loyalty? You get a complicit, uncritical press
greasing the skids to a brutal war, conspiring to out a CIA
agent, and muddying the waters of a grand jury
investigation. In the fearful aftermath of 9/11, much of
America’s pride — its free press — became an unquestioning
propaganda arm. Marcy Wheeler’s Anatomy of Deceit documents how the media
promoted the Bush administration’s justification for war —
that Iraq was on the verge of acquiring weapons of mass
destruction — even though much of it was debunked. And it
provides a play-by-play account of how Vice President Dick
Cheney’s office first used the media to target a critic,
former Ambassador Joe Wilson, and then to avoid criminal
charges in the CIA leak case. While the media was beating the drums of war and cozying up
to the administration, citizen journalists were digging for
the truth. Wheeler's compelling account tells the story, as
it needs to be told — from outside the Beltway's cocktail
circuit.
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