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Lies, incorporated the world of post-truth politics

"A progressive research and information center examines how organizations and lobbies like gun control, tobacco and alcohol and oil have combined forces to attack and distort the truth, cripple legislation and create controversy where there is none,"--NoveList.

Main Author: Rabin-Havt, Ari (Author)
Corporate Authors: Mediamatters.org.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016.
Subjects:
Truthfulness and falsehood > Political aspects > United States.
Mass media > Political aspects > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 21st century.
Summary: "A progressive research and information center examines how organizations and lobbies like gun control, tobacco and alcohol and oil have combined forces to attack and distort the truth, cripple legislation and create controversy where there is none,"--NoveList.
Item Description: "An Anchor Books original"
Physical Description: xviii, 238 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-236).
ISBN: 9780307279590
0307279596
Author Notes: ARI RABIN-HAVT is host of The Agenda , a national radio show airing Monday through Friday on SiriusXM. His writing has been featured in USA Today, The New Republic, The Nation, The New York Observer, Salon, and The American Prospect , and he has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, Al Jazeera, and HuffPost Live.

Along with David Brock, he coauthored The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine and The Benghazi Hoax . He previously served as executive vice president of Media Matters for America and as an adviser to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and former vice president Al Gore.

MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA is a Web-based, not-for-profit, progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.

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