Today on Too Opinionated, author and Pulitzer winning journalist Dan Luzadder stops in to discuss his two new books!
The Manchurian Journalist: Lawrence Wright, the CIA, and the Corruption of American Journalism
Luzadder’s in-depth, extensively documented, and critical examination of the Fourth Estate is a tough look at what must be done to restore the independence and integrity of America’s watchdog of democracy, its independent journalists. “As the nation witnesses the collapse of fact-based, unbiased, democracy-supporting
The Manchurian Journalist documents for readers that their concerns about American journalism are justified. It shows that as the watchdog of democracy journalism has, since the Cold War, been compromised by influences unseen and unheard by the public in deciding what people read, hear and subsequently believe. This cultural cold war, led by a CIA and State Department-tied political strategy, involved major news outlets, magazine and book publishers, and worked through a network of unsigned intelligence ‘agents' – and influential institutions, foundations and government agencies -- to propagandize the American public, challenge socialism and communism, and preserve an elite “ Establishment.”
Street Talk: The Great Flood and Other Stories from a River City
