Bøger af David Dadge

What happens to journalists who expose uncomfortable truths? "Silenced" answers this and other questions regarding censorship with the stories of journalists who risked their careers so that the public might be informed.

Dadge documents a number of disturbing incidents of attempted press censorship by the Bush administration and its public criticism of journalists who appeared to be out of step with the general patriotic fervor.

This insightful analysis argues that the media should have done a better job of performing its traditional role of skeptic and watchdog, and it examines what went wrong. There are, of course, many people whose support for going to war in Iraq was not contingent on the existence of WMD or a connection to al-Qaeda.