Fooling America : how Washington's power brokers manipulate the conventional wisdom to mislead journalists, Congress, and the American people

A behind-the-scenes look at how government seduces the free press into abandoning hard investigation and insight. Former Associated Press and Newsweek reporter Parry calls on the public, press, and Congress to reassume their bipartisan responsibility to challenge Conventional Wisdom and uncover the truth. Conventional Wisdom is the unwritten polite term used to refer to the limits of what the public is allowed to read. History through the eyes of the reporter who knew his insights and truths would never be printed in his coverage. “By 1986, the aims of the magazine and the aims of the policymakers were identical. Nothing would get in their way—not international law, not any notion of journalist distance or independence.”