num_pages: 422
description: Explodes the myth that the media in Western democracies function as neutral purveyors of objective fact and seekers of truth.
language: English
title: Necessary Illusions
titlecomplete: Necessary Illusions
characters: Edward Said, Walter Lippmann, A.J.P. Taylor, Pol Pot, Phyllis Schlafly, Elie Wiesel, Andrew Sullivan, Paul Berman, Charles Krauthammer, Norman Stone, Stephen Kinzer, Norman Podhoretz, Bob Woodward, Alexander Cockburn, Norman Finkelstein, Joe Klein, Marie Colvin, Irving Howe, Christopher Hitchens, José Napoleón Duarte, Hendrik Hertzberg, John Dewey, Winston Churchill, Woodrow Wilson, Yasser Arafat, Jimmy Carter, David Corn, Wolf Blitzer, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Benny Morris, Thomas Friedman, William Safire, Ronald Reagan, Joseph Lelyveld, Marty Peretz, George Will, Holly Sklar, William Blum, Michael Walzer, Charles Glass, Abraham Foxman, Fred Barnes
genres: Sociology, History, Psychology, Society, Economics, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Politics, Political Science, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1452
publisher: Pluto Press