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drdreuh's review
5.0
A cautionary tale about the hoodwinking of America during the Bush administration's pursuit of a war with Iraq, and how the failure of the media to act as independent authorities - in the service of the truth - can render them complicit in such heinous acts. If the story were fiction it would seem too contrived, but Amy Goodman provides such an over-abundance of examples, exhaustively retold, that you simply can't deny what occurred. Her recounting impels us to recognize that the media's job is to observe and to document and to question - most importantly to question - and then to report.
The truth never had a chance then, nor does it now. This is evidenced by how shocking this book is even for an anti-Bush reader, eight years after the fact. Americans have an attention span of a flea and mainstream media failed to accept their charge to evaluate the facts they were provided by Bush officials with a critical eye. Indeed Amy Goodman and her Pacifica Radio program 'Democracy Now' is a lone voice, at once tedious but true.
The truth never had a chance then, nor does it now. This is evidenced by how shocking this book is even for an anti-Bush reader, eight years after the fact. Americans have an attention span of a flea and mainstream media failed to accept their charge to evaluate the facts they were provided by Bush officials with a critical eye. Indeed Amy Goodman and her Pacifica Radio program 'Democracy Now' is a lone voice, at once tedious but true.
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