{"product_id":"the-record-of-the-paper-isbn-9781844675838","title":"The Record of the Paper","description":"On May 26, 2004, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e issued an apology for its coverage of Iraq’s purported weapons of mass destruction. The \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e had failed to provide what most readers expect from the US newspaper of record: journalistic accuracy and integrity about important matters of US foreign policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut the \u003ci\u003eTimes’\u003c\/i\u003e coverage of Iraq was worse than they were willing to concede. In fact, for at least the past fifty years the editorial policy of the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e—from its coverage of the 1954 Geneva Accords on Vietnam to the issue of torture in Abu Ghraib—has failed to incorporate international law into its coverage of US foreign policy. This lapse, as the authors demonstrate, has profound implications for the quality of the \u003ci\u003eTimes’\u003c\/i\u003e journalism and the function of the press in a country supposedly governed by the rule of law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this meticulously researched study, Howard Friel and Richard Falk reveal how the \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e has consistently misreported major US foreign policy issues, including the bombing of North Vietnam in response to the Tonkin Gulf and Pleiku incidents in 1964-65, the Reagan administration’s policy toward the Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the 1980s, the 2002 military coup that briefly overthrew Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s elected president, and the Bush administration’s 2003 invasion of Iraq.“There could hardly be a more critical issue today than whether the world will be governed by the rule of law or the unilateral resort to force. This closely argued and penetrating study reviews half a century of increasing contempt for law and preference for force from a dual perspective: US government policy, and ‘journalistic malfeasance with far-reaching implications for constitutionalism in the United States and the rule of law for our country and the world’—no exaggeration, as the authors demonstrate in meticulous detail. \u003ci\u003eThe Record of the Paper\u003c\/i\u003e should be read and pondered carefully, and taken as a call for action by concerned citizens.”—Noam Chomsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Friel and Falk provide a thorough and convincing analysis of how the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e advocated for the Iraq invasion, avoided dissenting views, ignored global opinion and established fact, and dismissed the relevance of international law. Perhaps most importantly, this book frames the shameful coverage of Iraq within the culture of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, with its consistent endorsement of US foreign policy from Vietnam to Nicaragua, Venezuela to Iraq. Read this book and join the fight for an independent media.”—Amy Goodman\u003cb\u003eHoward Friel\u003c\/b\u003e is author with Richard Falk of \u003ci\u003eThe Record of the Paper: How The New York Times Misreports U.S. Foreign Policy \u003c\/i\u003e(Verso, 2004), and (with Falk) of \u003ci\u003eIsrael-Palestine on Record: How The New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East\u003c\/i\u003e (Verso, 2007). Friel also wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight about Global Warming\u003c\/i\u003e (Yale University Press, 2010) and \u003ci\u003eChomsky and Dershowitz: On Endless War and the End of Civil Liberties \u003c\/i\u003e(Olive Branch Press, 2014). Friel is the principal author of \u003ci\u003eA Paradigm Shift to Prevent and Treat Alzheimer's Disease: From Monotargeting Pharmaceuticals to Pleiotropic Plant Polyphenols \u003c\/i\u003e(Elsevier, 2017).  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Falk\u003c\/b\u003e is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University, and since 2002 is Visiting Professor of Global Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300549152997,"sku":"NP9781844675838","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844675838.jpg?v=1767741188","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-record-of-the-paper-isbn-9781844675838","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}