The Greatest Story Ever Sold; The Decline And Fall Of Truth from 9/11 To Katrina

Rich, Frank

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: The Penguin Press, New York, 2006

159420098X / 9781594200984

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[8], 341, [3] p. Notes. Index. Frank Hart Rich, Jr. (born June 2, 1949) is an American essayist, op-ed columnist and writer who has most notably held various positions within The New York Times from 1980 to 2011. On March 1, 2011, it was announced that he would be leaving the Times to become an essayist and editor-at-large for New York magazine starting in June 2011. In 1994, Rich became an op-ed columnist for the New York Times; from 2003 to 2011, he wrote regularly for the Times on mass media and public relations, particularly its coverage of U.S. national politics. His columns, now appearing in New York Magazine, make regular references to a broad range of popular culture including television, movies, theater and literature and draw connections to politics and current events. The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina (2006), criticized the American media for its support of the Bush administration's policies following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. When America was attacked on 9/11, its citizens almost unanimously rallied behind its new, untested president as he went to war. What they didn't know at the time was that the Bush administration's highest priority was not to vanquish Al Qaeda but to consolidate its own power at any cost. It was a mission that could be accomplished only by a propaganda presidency in which reality was steadily replaced by a scenario of the White House's own inventionâ€"and such was that scenario's devious brilliance that it fashioned a second war against an enemy that did not attack America on 9/11, intimidated the Democrats into incoherence and impotence, and turned a presidential election into an irrelevant referendum on macho imagery and same-sex marriage. As only he can, acclaimed New York Times columnist Frank Rich delivers a step-by-step chronicle of how skillfully the White House built its house of cards and how the institutions that should have exposed these fictions, the mainstream news media, were too often left powerless by the administration's relentless attack machine, their own post-9/11 timidity, and an unending parade of self-inflicted scandals (typified by those at The New York Times). Demonstrating the candor and conviction that have made him one of our most trusted and incisive public voices, Rich brilliantly and meticulously illuminates the White House's disturbing love affair with "truthiness," and the ways in which a bungled war, a seemingly obscure Washington leak, and a devastating hurricane at long last revealed the man-behind-the-curtain and the story that had so effectively been sold to the nation, as god-given patriotic fact.

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Titel
The Greatest Story Ever Sold; The Decline And Fall Of Truth from 9/11 To Katrina
Autor
Rich, Frank
Verlag
The Penguin Press, New York
Veröffentlichungsjahr
2006
Zustand
Very good
Schutzumschlag
Very good
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
159420098X
ISBN-13
9781594200984
Illustrator
Fred D. Conrad (Author photograph)
Ausgabe
Second printing [stated].
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Journalism, Propaganda, Terrorism, White House

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