Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College; media columnist for The Nation and Daily Beast; author of When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences, What Liberal Media?: The Truth about Bias in the Media and Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama
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