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How The Newspaper of Record Spun and Sold Nuclear Testing as a Good Thing for America and the World-and Who Paid the Price
How did a world class newspaper become little more than a propaganda outlet for the U.S. government in its drive to cover up the dangers of radioactivity emanating from the testing of nuclear weapons? And why is it still offering warped coverage of the issues 40 years after the end of nuclear tests above ground? Hiding nearly half of the tests from public view, The New York Times' stories predated by more than 40 years its recent crisis of made-up stories by reporter Jayson Blair. And the people of Enewetak, removed from their Pacific Islands and still exiled have much to tell the Iraqis about the sad history of U.S. governance abroad. In this compelling case study, reporter Beverly Keever takes you inside our most prestigious propaganda machine to show just how the New York Times covered up the reality from half lives with half truths to a complete alternative framework to manufacture consent.
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"Beverly Keever skillfully reveals how the New York Times served as an instrument of outrageous government cover-up in the early years of the Cold War. By exposing the undemocratic and darkly misinformational role of our supposedly 'free and independent press,' this book makes a vitalcontribution to both political and journalistic history." --Michael Parenti, author of THE ASSASSINATION OF JULIUS CAESAR and SUPERPATRIOTISM
"News Zero provides a disturbing account of the New York Times' failure to fulfill its function as the public's watchdog on a literally life-and-death issues: the continuing catastrophic impact of nuclear radiation and radioactivity. In her well-researched and documented book, Keever not only recounts the Times' sins of omission in its reporting on nuclear arms since the dawn of the Atomic Age in WWII but illustrates a pattern of complicity in government secrecy about the devastating effects of radiation on public health and the environment. One comes away from this indictment of the nation's most influential newspaper wondering if its motto should be revised from All the News That's Fit to Print to All the News About Nuclearization That the Government Thinks Is Fit to Print." --Erna Smith, Professor, Journalism, San Francisco State University, Senior Director, Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism
AUTHOR BIO Beverly Deepe Keever is a professor of Journalism at the University of Hawai`i. She coverd the Vietnam War for 7 years for Newsweek, the New York Herald Tribune and the Christian Science Monitor.
"Beverly Keever skillfully reveals how the New York Times served as an instrument of outrageous government cover-up in the early years of the Cold War. By exposing the undemocratic and darkly misinformational role of our supposedly 'free and independent press,' this book makes a vitalcontribution to both political and journalistic history." 