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I provided a somewhat dim preface to the first edition of Kristina Borjesson's collection of stories censored/ suppressed by print editors and publishers, not to mention by those TV producers and advertisers who determine what Americans should and should not know about the products that they are expected to consume unquestioningly -from skewed States of the Union to tainted junk food. But since Buzzsaw One our world has changed. We have been exposed not only to a blizzard of lies from our government on matters of war and peace but to bold litigation by corporate America against whistleblowers of the sort gathered now in Buzzsaw Two. Borjesson is democratic in her choice of journalists: she allows such brand names as Dan Rather and Christiane Amanpour to tell us what they actually think about the awful coverage of the buildup to the Iraq War where, on the subject of those imagined weapons of mass destruction, Amanpour tells us that "the press was muzzled and I think the press self-muzzled," earning her a rebuke from the CNN Newsgroup president who plainly thinks the world of his incredible product.Certainly CNN's idea of a lead story is a domestic murder in Modesto, California, to b

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Author

Börjesson, Kristina

Publisher

Prometheus Books, Publishers

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781591022305

Category

history