Audio Interview with Gregg Mitchell author of So Wrong For So Long

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Ian Masters host of "Live from the Leftcoast" program on KPFK Los Angeles interviews authors Gregg Mitchell and James Moore (co-author of Bush's Brain) on the March 30th show.

MP3s of the show available at the link below.

Greg Mitchell on the very poor performance of the American media in covering and questioning the Iraq war. Mr. Mitchell is the editor of Editor & Publisher, the journal of the newspaper business which has won several major awards for its coverage of Iraq and the media. He has written eight books, including Hiroshima in America (with Robert Jay Lifton) and The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics. His articles have appeared in dozens of leading newspapers and magazines and he blogs at Talking Points Memo..His new book is "So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits and the President Failed on Iraq." Bill Moyers has said of "So Wrong for So Long," "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."

James Moore on the many scandals associated with former Bush advisor Karl Rove, the most recent being the political targeting of Alabama governor Don Seigelman. Mr. Moore is the coauthor, with Wayne Slater, of the bestselling Bush s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential and the author of Bush s War for Reelection. An Emmy Award winning television news correspondent, he has traveled extensively with every presidential campaign since 1976. His latest book, again with co-author Wayne Slater, is "The Architect: Karl Rove and the Dream of Absolute Power," which details Rove's efforts to forge a long-term Republican political hegemony and the marginalization of the Democratic Party.

http://www.ianmasters.org/left_coast.html