The Manchurian Journalist: New Book By Pulitzer-Prize Winning
Journalist Casts Critical Eye on Today's State of Independent
Journalism and Doesn't Like What's Found
NEW
ORLEANS, June 19, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/
-- Available for interview: Author Dan Luzadder, The
Manchurian Journalist: Lawrence
Wright, the CIA, and the Corruption of American
Journalism
"As the nation witnesses the collapse of
fact-based, unbiased, democracy-supporting journalism, amid our
current political dystopia, a truly free and independent press
remains a democratic dream yet unrealized," said Luzadder.
Forty-year investigative reporter Dan
Luzadder went from writing as an employee for America's
newspapers and magazines to being a freelance reporter for national
publications like the New York Times
and New York Daily News. He even was inducted into the Scripps
Howard Journalism Hall of Fame in 1993 for covering stories like
the Columbine High School massacre.
But when he accepted a challenge from the Church of Scientology
to examine the veracity of claims made about the church's more
controversial practices found in a best-selling book titled Going
Clear by fellow Pulitzer-Prize winner Lawrence Wright, Luzadder found a journalistic
environment far from the hallowed image of the "free press" he
built his career on.
By examining the writings of Lawrence
Wright as his principal example, Luzadder shows how
America's post-World War Two obsession with preserving a
freedom-fighting global war machine led to open manipulation of the
nation's independent press, film, and publishing industries to
advance systemic propaganda.
This examination of America's supposedly free media moves
through the rise of the Central Intelligence Agency, the increasing
corporate monopolization of the nation's free press, the creation
of preferred publishing houses like Harper & Row and
Franklin Books, as well as today's
withered and fractured press landscape threatened by outside
manipulation and a loss of institutional memory.
Noting that the press rarely reports on itself, Luzadder's book
explores beyond the uncomfortable links between the CIA and the
international and domestic press as covered by Carl Bernstein in a 1977 Rolling Stone expose to
examine the roots of today's public distrust of American
journalism.
"This book is an explosive detective story identifying by name
individuals, organizations, and institutions that influenced the US
media for decades, shaping what the public read and believed, and
creating myths that undermine historical accuracy,"
said Luzadder.
"The Manchurian Journalist raises and attempts to answer ominous
questions about journalism's transparency with readers, its fealty
to the truth, and how its relationship to secret intelligence
interests has distorted what Americans understand about our own
political environment."
Luzadder's in-depth, extensively documented, and critical
examination of the Fourth Estate is a tough look at what must be
done to restore the independence and integrity of America's
watchdog of democracy, its independent journalists.
"As the nation witnesses the collapse of fact-based, unbiased,
democracy-supporting journalism, amid our current political
dystopia, a truly free and independent press remains a democratic
dream yet unrealized," said Luzadder. "Rebuilding the dream of a
functional media rooted in truth and integrity, committed to the
fundamentals of democracy, is dependent on that truth being
known."
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