The smear how shady political operatives and fake news control what you see, what you think, and how you vote
"Behind most major political stories there is an agenda: To destroy an idea or the people advancing it. Maybe you watched someone on the news report that Donald Trump is a racist misogynist, read that Hillary Clinton used a body double, or heard that Bernie Sanders cheated in the primary. Regardless...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Birth of the modern smear: spies, Bork, and the Clintons
- David Brock's smear frontier
- The smear industrial complex: smear merchants and scandalmongers
- Media matters (but money matters more)
- Plausible deniability: conjuring an Astroturf reality
- Transactional journalism: the black market information trade
- the anti-smear candidate (and the disloyal opposition)
- The road to the conventions
- General election
- Brave new world of #FakeNews (and chilling efforts to censor it)
- Epilogue: The smear gone global.
