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WINNER: National Press Club''s Arthur Rowse Award for Press CriticismLeading journalists from Fox News, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, newspapers, and other outlets-including Dan Rather, Ashleigh Banfield, Robert McChesney, Greg Palast, Pulitzer Prize and Emmy winners, and more-recount the press censorship they experienced in the wake of 9/11 security concerns. With a foreword by Gore Vidal and edited by former CBS and CNN producer Kristina Borjesson, this highly acclaimed anthology has been described as "fascinating and disturbing," "uplifting" and "infuriating," and a "penetrating collection of powerful essays." The original edition won the National Press Club''s Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism and was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the most extraordinary titles of 2002.
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Table of contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Editor’s Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Patriot and the Censor’s Necklace: An Interview with BBC Culture Correspondent Madeleine Holt
- Chapter 2: The Memo
- Chapter 3: A Shot Messenger’s Observations
- Chapter 4: The War on Terror and the Great Game for Oil: How the Media Missed the Context
- Chapter 5: The Price of Liberty
- Chapter 6: Crimes and Silence: The CIA’s Criminal Acts and the Media’s Silence
- Chapter 7: The Mighty Wurlitzer Plays On
- Chapter 8: Mainstream Media: The Drug War’s Shills
- Chapter 9: The Silence of the Lambs: An American in Journalistic Exile
- Chapter 10: The Fox, the Hounds, and the Sacred Cows
- Chapter 11: The Story No One Wanted to Hear
- Chapter 12: Verdict First, Evidence Later: The Case for Bobby Garwood
- Chapter 13: Into the Buzzsaw
- Chapter 14: Coal Mine Canaries
- Chapter 15: When Black Becomes White
- Chapter 16: Stories We Love, Stories We Hate
- Chapter 17: Shouting at the Crocodile
- Chapter 18: What Happened to Good Old-Fashioned Muckraking?
- Chapter 19: The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism
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