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OverviewOn May 26, 2004, the New York Times issued an apology for its coverage of Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction. The Times had failed to provide what most readers expect from the US newspaper of record: journalistic accuracy and integrity about important matters of US foreign policy. But the Times' coverage of Iraq was worse than they were willing to concede. In fact, for at least the past fifty years the editorial policy of the Times-from its coverage of the 1954 Geneva Accords on Vietnam to the issue of torture in Abu Ghraib-has failed to incorporate international law into its coverage of US foreign policy. This lapse, as the authors demonstrate, has profound implications for the quality of the Times' journalism and the function of the press in a country supposedly governed by the rule of law. In this meticulously researched study, Howard Friel and Richard Falk reveal how the Times has consistently misreported major US foreign policy issues, including the bombing of North Vietnam in response to the Tonkin Gulf and Pleiku incidents in 1964-65, the Reagan administration's policy toward the Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the 1980s, the 2002 military coup that briefly overthrew Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's elected president, and the Bush administration's 2003 invasion of Iraq. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Howard Friel , Richard FalkPublisher: Verso Books Imprint: Verso Books Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.466kg ISBN: 9781844675838ISBN 10: 1844675831 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 17 April 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsA potent argument about the corruption of our empire. - Salon The authors write with scholarly ire and occasional wit. - The Guardian Author InformationHoward Friel is author with Richard Falk of The Record of the Paper: How The New York Times Misreports U.S. Foreign Policy (Verso, 2004), and (with Falk) of Israel-Palestine on Record: How The New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East (Verso, 2007). Friel also wrote The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight about Global Warming (Yale University Press, 2010) and Chomsky and Dershowitz: On Endless War and the End of Civil Liberties (Olive Branch Press, 2014). Friel is the principal author of A Paradigm Shift to Prevent and Treat Alzheimer's Disease: From Monotargeting Pharmaceuticals to Pleiotropic Plant Polyphenols (Elsevier, 2017). Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University, and since 2002 is Visiting Professor of Global Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |