The Exception To The Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, And The Media That Love Them - Softcover

Goodman, Amy L.; Goodman, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140130799X ISBN 13: 9781401307998

Publisher: Hyperion Books, 2005

Synopsis

An award-winning journalist and host of Pacifica Network's Democracy Now! takes a close-up look at the corporate and political hypocrisy that is rampant in America, offering no-holds-barred commentary on the corruption of media monopolies, the deceptions of the Bush administration, corporate influence on government, and other current events. Reprint.

About this title

Review:

"Pick up this book, shake your head in disbelief and disgust as you read it, and then go raise some hell!" (Michael Moore)

"Hostile, combative and even disrespectful" (Bill Clinton)

"Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights of exciting, informative, and probing analysis...She has made a unique contribution to creating the informed public that must exist if "democracy now" is to be more than a dream." (Noam Chomsky)

"Amy Goodman represents what journalism should be: beholden to the interests of people, not power and profit" (Arundhati Roy)

"I have advised my mother to talk to no reporters because of people like you" (Former US Speaker Newt Gingrich)

Book Description:

'This book puts the pedal to the metal of all the lies we're told day in and day out-shake your head in disbelief and disgust as you read it, and then put it down so you can go raise some hell!' Michael MooreAuthor of Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country?

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 140130799X
• ISBN 13: 9781401307998
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 342