ITEM OVERVIEW
Here, two dozen award-winning print and TV journalists contribute devastating essays about the dangerous state of American journalism today. Writing in riveting detail about their personal experiences with the "buzzsaw"—concerted corporate and/or government efforts to kill their controversial stories and their careers—the contributors reveal the real depth and breadth of censorship in America today. Contributors include Carl Jensen, Robert McChesney, Philip Weiss, Maurice Murad, Greg Palast, Gary Webb, Helen Malmgren, and more. With a foreword by Gore Vidal. "If members of the general public read this book, they will be appalled. To the uninitiated reader, the accounts of what goes on behind the scenes at major news organizations are shocking." —Publishers Weekly
Now in a greatly revised and expanded paperback edition (not to mention ten bucks cheaper), Into the Buzzsaw includes CBS's Dan Rather describing in chilling terms how pressure to be patriotic compelled him and other journalists to censor themselves; Former Fox Network producer Charles Reina exposing details on how Fox News is shaped by a daily memo, addressing what stories will be covered, and how they will be covered; and Pulitzer nominee John Kelly offering a troubling update on recent deadly CIA operations carried out as part of the War On Terror.
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