Fog Facts Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin

by Beinhart, Larry

• ISBN13: 9781560258865
• ISBN10: 1560258861
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-04
• Publisher: Bold Type Books

Summary

Everyone in the world knows what Bill Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky, or what happened to Brad and Jennifer, Katie and Tom. These factoids mysteriously capture the world's attention. But there's a flip side to this: fog facts. Fog facts are known but not known, the sort of things that journalists and political junkies know, but somehow the world does not. The "Downing Street Memo" is a fine example. This document revealed that the head of British intelligence had been informed by his Washington counterparts that the White House was cooking the books on the information it was using to justify a war in Iraq. Yet this was not big news in America. Why? In Fog Facts, Larry Beinhart tackles this question and shows how soft-core, public relations-style political lying has been raised to an art form.

Author Biography

Larry Beinhart is an award-winning novelist who lives in Woodstock, New York. He is the author of Wag the Dog and last year's acclaimed novel The Librarian. His op-eds have appeared in the Baltimore Sun, Newsday and the Miami Herald. He was the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Chapter One THE FAILURE TO SEE WHAT'S BEFORE OUR EYES	1	(10)
Chapter Two LIES THAT BLIND US	11	(10)
Chapter Three THE ETHICAL HEIGHTS DISAPPEAR IN THE MIST	21	(11)
Chapter Four THERE ARE No WAR CRIMES WHEN THE LEGIONS MARCH	32	(23)
Chapter Five DISBELIEVING WHAT WE'RE SEEING	55	(7)
Chapter Six DON'T LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAY-LOOK AT WHAT THEY DO	62	(49)
Chapter Seven WHO YOU GONNA BELIEVE, THEM OR YOUR LYING EYES?	111	(12)
Chapter Eight STEALING IN PLAIN SIGHT	123	(11)
Chapter Nine THE SOFT MACHINE	134	(14)
Chapter Ten THE LAND OF INVISIBLE CORPSES	148	(9)
Chapter Eleven OUT OF FOG	157	(32)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	189	(2)
INDEX	191