The Slant: How the CIA Corrupted American Journalism

By Dan Luzadder

As a journalist with lengthy experience investigating political
corruption and criminal networks, Pulitzer Prize-winner Dan Luzadder's
greatest skill is getting "inside" controversial and secretive
organizations. In The Slant, Luzadder investigates networks of
secret influence and raises questions about the credibility of the media
and on the role of the corruption of journalism as a watchdog of
democracy.

The Slant focuses primarily on influential journalist Lawrence Wright, a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for The New Yorker
magazine, and authority on Al Qaeda, whose profile grew to include an
influential, and controversial, book on the Church of Scientology. In an
attempt to make sense of Wright's Scientology investigation, Luzadder
took a position as an independent contributing editor with the Church's
investigative journal, Freedom magazine, and was given inside
access to members, clergy, and executive leadership. His subsequent
inquiries into alleged bias in the media's coverage of Scientology, and
Wright's own coverage, led Luzadder to uncover much larger
concerns--going to the heart of journalistic integrity.
Luzadder's
investigation discovers a propaganda network created by the CIA and
powerful private allies, dating from its Cold War origins to the Age of
Terror. Luzadder believes these organizations groomed journalists,
publishers, editors, and others in the American media, who promoted Cold
War political ideologies and agendas. Wright's close personal ties to
these CIA-connected organizations, that he's never disclosed, raises
troubling issues over hidden influences within a free press.
These
revelations shed a different light not only on Lawrence Wright's
journalistic accomplishments and his role as an "independent"
journalist, but on the independence of the publishing and media
industries themselves. Wright's documented associations reveal yet
another shadowy chapter in the elite liberal media's murky relationship
with a so-called "deep state."
This is an explosive detective story
that identifies by name individuals, organizations, and institutions
that influence the US media and shape what the American public believes
within the nation and around the world. The unknown relationships
journalists share with domestic CIA media influencers raises ominous
questions not only about their careers and their honesty, but how the
American media facilitated their rise to prominence. Will we ever know
the truth about the media's coverage of the Church of Scientology, of
the Cold War, or of the War on Terror? Is unbiased, independent
journalism--in no one's pocket--yet another American myth? If the nation's
journalism is to rise above its own corrupted and mythologized past, to
become democracy's true Fourth Estate, its revival depends on
acknowledging its true history, and severing relationships with hidden
influences.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1635768241
• ISBN13: 9781635768244
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Radius Book Group
• Length: 384 Pages