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...highly publicized bombshell, “State of Denial”—it hardly needs to worry about the competition. Indeed, while Ricks’ and Woodward’s works focus mostly on the administration’s handling of the Iraq War itself, Rich discusses something completely different—the current administration’s well-oiled propaganda machine...
...Structured in two parts, titled “Making the Sale” and “Buyer’s Remorse,” respectively, Rich likens the book’s narrative to a two-act play. If this were a play, Rich—who was branded “The Butcher of Broadway” during his New York Times tenure as chief theatre critic—has just given the Bush administration the worst possible review...
...media gets an especially bad whipping from Rich—not just the obvious suspect Fox News, but also other major networks and even Rich’s own employer—for becoming pawns in White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove’s PR game. Rich goes on to call the past five years, “an embarrassing era for the American news media.” He does, however, praise several journalists, including The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh, who first broke the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, for continuing journalistic integrity...
...strange that the “journalist” who gets the most mention and approval from Rich is not really a journalist at all, but a comedian who anchors a fake news show on a cable comedy channel. That Jon Stewart had more guts to point out the absurdities about the administration than MSNBC is a harrowing thought...
...Rich writes, “With Jay Leno wearing a flag pin, a growing, if still small audience was identifying The Daily Show as one of the few reliable spots on the dial for finding something other than the government line...