'E&P' Editor Unveils His New Book on Iraq and the Media

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Audio Report:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003713424

NEW YORK In this week’s podcast, E&P Editor Greg Mitchell offers an exclusive preview of his just-published book on Iraq and the media, titled “So Wrong for So Long: How the The Press, the Pundits -- and the President -- Failed on Iraq."

Mitchell chats with Online Editor Pauline Millard about the inspiration for the book -- which he calls the first history of the entire five-year war -- provides an overview and specific chapter topics along with contributions by famed war reporter Joseph L. Galloway and Bruce Springsteen.

Listen or download here.
http://nielsenpodcasts.com/podcast/index.php?d1=ep&p=21

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The pieces appear chronologically, with material between each column explaining what was transpiring in the war and in the media coverage during that period. In this way it offers a running commentary on the conflict in Iraq and within the media during a five year era. So readers can follow the controversies surrounding Judith Miller, Pat Tillman, Donald Rumsfeld, "Scooter" Libby and even Stephen Colbert, among many others, from beginning to end.


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Remarks by early reviewers follow.
"Greg Mitchell has given us a razor-sharp critique of how the media and the government connived in one of the great blunders of American foreign policy. Every aspiring journalist, every veteran, every pundit—and every citizen who cares about the difference between illusion and reality, propaganda and the truth, and looks to the press to help keep them separate—should read this book. Twice."
— Bill Moyers