Ari Rabin-Havt. (2016). Lies, Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Ari Rabin-Havt. 2016. Lies, Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

Ari Rabin-Havt, Lies, Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016.

Ari Rabin-Havt. Lies, Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016.

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   • bioText: ARI RABIN-HAVT is host of The Agenda, a national radio show airing Monday through Friday on SiriusXM. His writing has been featured in USA Today, The New Republic, The Nation, The New York Observer, Salon, and The American Prospect, and he has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, Al Jazeera, and HuffPost Live.
     Along with David Brock, he coauthored The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine and The Benghazi Hoax. He previously served as executive vice president of Media Matters for America and as an adviser to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and former vice president Al Gore.
     MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA is a Web-based, not-for-profit, progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
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A stunning investigation of the history of organized misinformation in politics.
In today’s post-truth political landscape, there is a carefully concealed but ever-growing industry of organized misinformation that exists to create and disseminate lies in the service of political agendas. Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters for America present a revelatory history of this industry—which they've dubbed Lies, Incorporated—and show how it has crippled legislative progress on issues including tobacco regulation, public health care, climate change, gun control, immigration, abortion, and same-sex marriage. Eye-opening and indispensable, Lies, Incorporated takes an unflinching look at the powerful network of politicians and special interest groups that have launched coordinated assaults on the truth to shape American politics.

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   • content: "Ari Rabin-Havt tells the truth, and that's something rare in Washington, D.C."
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   • content: "A damning jeremiad on how modern public policy can be exploited by corporate chicanery."
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     February 15, 2016
     A damning jeremiad on how modern public policy can be exploited by corporate chicanery. Journalist and national radio host Rabin-Havt (co-author: The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine, 2012, etc.), in conjunction with news watchdog Media Matters for America, digs deep to reveal a consortium of manipulators bent on undermining beneficial organizations and causes with manufactured misinformation. From the initial pages, the author blatantly skewers controversial public relations guru Richard Berman as a smear campaign propagandist. Rabin-Havt proceeds to systematically compile an incriminating dossier of lobbyists, propaganda spinners, unethical authorities, and "unscrupulous think tanks," collaboratively known as "Lies, Incorporated." These groups channel misinformation and generate public confusion around the most controversial hot-button issues surfacing during the Barack Obama administration. In a narrative that is far from sour-grapes disparagement, the author provides meticulous research and evidentiary support backing claims of these groups' corruption dating back to their inception in the early 1950s when a shady syndicate of tobacco industry titans disseminated falsified information about the risks of cigarette smoking. For every crucial issue that surfaces, a corporation's interests appear directly threatened by its exposure, the author implies, and desperate measures are taken by appointed spin doctors to skew semantics and twist reality for the sake of profit. With succinct clarity, Rabin-Havt demonstrates that statistics on climate change and global warming are continually challenged by the oil industry, just as efforts to promote comprehensive immigration reform, affordable health care, gun control laws, abortion rights, and gay marriage have all been continually contradicted by opposing factions propagating critically damaging misinformation. But the problem seems to have spiraled out of control. This is most obvious in the book's closing chapter of remedies to "weaponize truth" by "demanding transparency from elected leaders as well as the media." While galvanizing and optimistic, these solutions require major cultural shifts and, alas, appear to be as complex as the problem itself. Powerfully crafted accusations sounding the alarm on an insidious trend in political manipulation.

     COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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