American Pravda: My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News

✍ Scribed by O'Keefe, James

• Book ID: 109527386
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781250154644

✦ Synopsis

The one real difference between the American press and the Soviet state newspaper Pravda was that the Russian people knew they were being lied to. To expose the lies our media tell us today, controversial journalist James O'Keefe created Project Veritas, an independent news organization whose reporters go where traditional journalists dare not. Their investigative work-equal parts James Bond, Mike Wallace, and Saul Alinsky--has had a consistent and powerful impact on its targets.

In American Pravda , the reader is invited to go undercover with these intrepid journalists as they infiltrate political campaigns, unmask dishonest officials and expose voter fraud. A rollicking adventure story on one level, the book also serves as a treatise on modern media, arguing that establishment journalists have a vested interest in keeping the powerful comfortable and the people misinformed.

The book not only contests the false narratives frequently put forth by...