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Why the News Is Not the Truth
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The news media and the government are entwined in a vicious circle of mutual manipulation, mythmaking, and self-interest. Journalists need crises to dramatize the news, and government officials need to appear to be responding to crises. Together, they have woven a web of lies and have misled an increasingly skeptical public. Three books--News and the Culture of Lying: How Journalism Really Works, by Paul H. Weaver; Who Stole the News?: Why We Can't Keep Up with What Happens in the World, by Mort Rosenblum; and Tainted Truth: The Manipulation of Facts in America, by Cynthia Crossen--all deal with the corruption of the press. The news media's focus on facades rather than issues reflects a culture obsessed with personalities and a public plagued with a short attention span. What passes as business news is often corporate propaganda taken from press releases. While many of the reforms offered by the books' authors--such as breaking up media monopolies and reverting to drab reports of events and issues rather than stories of people and crises--are sensible, they are unlikely ever to come about. For years to come, businesses are likely to need more corporate propagandists, not fewer.