Lies, incorporated
Subtitle: the world of post-truth politics
By: Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters for America
Contributors: Mediamatters.org
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780307279590
Subjects: Politics and government; Mass media; Truthfulness and falsehood
Description: "A progressive research and information center examines how organizations and lobbies like gun control, tobacco and alcohol and oil have combined forces to attack and distort the truth, cripple legislation and create controversy where there is none,"--NoveList.
Notes: "An Anchor Books original."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-236).
Table of contents: title: The birth of lies incorporated: tobacco; title: Tobacco's sequel: climate change; title: Lie panel: health care; title: Growth in a time of lies: debt; title: On the border of truth: immigration reform; title: Two dangerous weapons: guns and lies; title: One lie, one vote: voter ID laws; title: Shut that whole lie down: abortion; title: A lie's last gasp: gay marriage; title: Defeating lies incorporated.