Borjesson, Kristina, ed. Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press. New York: Prometheus Books, 2002. 392 pages.

You don't need an investigator to discover that today, American journalism does more harm than good -- polls show that average Americans know this already. The "story behind the suppressed story" chapters in this book are contributed by newspaper and TV journalists, as well as authors of investigative books. The latter are familiar to NameBase users, but some of the TV news people figured out the important story only after they became unemployed. For example, CBS producer Kristina Borjesson spent many months pursuing the TWA 800 tragedy, in which 230 passengers and crew were brought down off the coast of New York by a friendly-fire accident in July, 1996. Borjesson's evidence was ignored and suppressed by her bosses at CBS, she was lied to by numerous government officials, more than a hundred witnesses were systematically ignored, the CIA produced a laughable animation, and the FBI's designated liar in charge of the case ended up working for CBS.

Much of the problem can be traced to corporate centralization and government deregulation. Refreshingly, in the last chapter Robert McChesney, an expert in the history of U.S. media, reminds us that in the early 1900s, the Socialist Party published some 325 newspapers and magazines. At that time, it was presumed that corporate media could only produce propaganda. "And that's the way it is," as CBS used to say.
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