Blogger for The Nation; author of Atomic Cover-Up: Two US Soldiers, Hiroshima & Nagasaki, and the Greatest Movie Never Made, So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits and the President Failed on Iraq, The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's E.P.I.C. Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics and the e-book, 40 Days That Shook the World: From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everywhere; former editor of Editor and Publisher, a newspaper-industry trade publication
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