You are being lied to : the disinformation guide to media distortion, historical whitewashes and cultural myths / edited by Russ Kick
Publisher: New York : The Disinformation Company, 2001Description: 398 p. 31 cm001: 7824ISBN: 0966410076Subject(s): Mass media | Propaganda | Political persuasion and propaganda | PoliticsDDC classification: 301.16 KICItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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You Are Being Lied To is a massive collection of articles that ruthlessly destroy the distortions, myths, and outright lies that are fed to us by the government, the media, corporations, history books, organized religion, science and medicine, and society in general. No one is spared, and all sacred cows are candidates for the grinder.
Do you believe any of the following?
Wake up! You're being lied to.
This book acts as a battering ram against the distortions, myths, and outright lies that have been shoved down our throats by the government, the media, corporations, organized religion, the scientific establishment, and others who want to keep the truth from us. An unprecedented group of researchers--investigative reporters, political dissidents, academics, media watchdogs, scientist-philosophers, social critics, and rogue scholars--paints a picture of a world where crucial stories are ignored or actively suppressed and the official version of events has more holes in it than Swiss cheese. A world where real dangers are downplayed and nonexistent dangers are trumpeted. In short, a world where you are being lied to.
Among the revelations inside:
Bibliography pp. 375-388
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- About Disinformation (p. 5)
- Introduction (p. 6)
- Keynote Address
- Reality Is a Shared Hallucination (p. 12)
- The News Media and Other Manipulators
- What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream (p. 20)
- Journalists Doing Somersaults (p. 25)
- The Puppets of Pandemonium (p. 29)
- New Rules for the New Millennium (p. 38)
- The Covert News Network (p. 40)
- Why Does the Associated Press Change Its Articles? (p. 44)
- We Distort, You Abide (p. 47)
- The Media and Their Atrocities (p. 51)
- Making Molehills Out of Mountains (p. 56)
- Why They Hate Oliver Stone (p. 60)
- The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV (p. 63)
- Sometimes Lying Means Only Telling a Small Part of the Truth (p. 64)
- Upon Hearing of the Electronic Bogeyman (p. 66)
- School Textbooks (p. 73)
- The Information Arms Race (p. 82)
- Politricks
- The War Secrets Senator John McCain Hides (p. 88)
- Jimmy Carter and Human Rights (p. 95)
- All the President's Men (p. 97)
- Oil Before Ozone (p. 101)
- God Save the President! (p. 107)
- Colony Kosovo (p. 111)
- The Truth About Terrorism (p. 114)
- You Can't Win (p. 117)
- Official Versions
- Anatomy of a School Shooting (p. 124)
- How the People Seldom Catch Intelligence (p. 128)
- Reassessing OKC (p. 139)
- Votescam (p. 143)
- The Rabin Murder Cover-up (p. 147)
- What's Missing from This Picture? (p. 152)
- The Social Fabrication
- Don't Blame Your Parents (p. 164)
- The Female Hard-on (p. 170)
- Art and the Eroticism of Puberty (p. 172)
- "A World That Hates Gays" (p. 176)
- Apt Pupils (p. 187)
- A Panic of Biblical Proportions over Media Violence (p. 194)
- The Man in the Bushes (p. 196)
- Condemned to Repeat It
- Amnesia in America (p. 202)
- Columbus and Western Civilization (p. 205)
- Go Out and Kill People Because This Article Tells You To (p. 214)
- Saving Private Power (p. 219)
- What I Didn't Know About the Communist Conspiracy (p. 227)
- Tripping
- Drug War Mythology (p. 234)
- Toad-Licking Blues (p. 241)
- Poppycock (p. 245)
- AA Lies (p. 254)
- The Unconscious Roots of the Drug War (p. 261)
- Holy Rolling
- The Truth About Jesus (p. 272)
- The Bible Code (p. 278)
- Mystics and Messiahs (p. 286)
- Who's Who in Hell (p. 290)
- Blinded by Science
- Environmentalism for the Twenty-First Century (p. 296)
- Humans Have Already Been Cloned (p. 304)
- NutraFear and NutraLoathing in Augusta, Georgia (p. 307)
- Forbidden Archaeology (p. 311)
- There Is So Much That We Don't Know (p. 316)
- The Big Picture
- Will the Real Human Being Please Stand Up? (p. 328)
- You Are Being Lied To: A Disinformation Books Roundtable (p. 335)
- I Have Met God and He Lives in Brooklyn (p. 347)
- Church of the Motherfucker (p. 354)
- A Sentient Universe (p. 356)
- A Lost Theory? (p. 359)
- Appendix A More Lies, Myths, and Manipulations (p. 364)
- Appendix B More Reading (p. 375)
- Contributors and Interviewees (p. 392)
- Article Histories (p. 399)
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Library Journal Review
Containing expos?s on topics ranging from Columbus to Columbine, this collection of stimulating articles Disinformation Books' inaugural title challenges popular beliefs on the Big Bang and the depredations of hackers. Kick, author of Psychotropedia and a columnist for the Village Voice, has collected an impressive array of articles by such contributors as Sydney Schanberg of the New York Times, in which he asks why John McCain persistently blocks public disclosure of MIA files, and the lesser-known Jim Marrs, a Kennedy conspiracy zealot and freelance journalist who discusses missing data from historical tragedies, including the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations and the Lockerbie bombing. Do gay teens really constitute a suicidal risk group? Was Jesus a myth? The best articles will surely compel readers to pursue further reading; none should be accepted as exhaustive. Public libraries ought to invest in a copy to keep alongside other sources of skepticism; academic libraries will find the scholarship uneven but provocative. [You may obtain a free e-book copy of this title if you purchase the paperback from http://store.disinfor.com; the e-book may also be purchased separately for $8.85. Ed.] Robert C. Moore, ITworld.com, Southboro, MA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.There are no comments on this title.