November 7, 2019

If you live in one of the social media echo chambers, and enjoy your daily drivel of reaffirming claptrap, this is NOT the book for you. O’Connor breathes new life into the lost art of investigative journalism, and forces us to question what we’ve previously taken for granted. Did WaPo capitalize on the naiveté of its readers by speeding to foregone partisan conclusions? Did they create the model in use today where conjecture passes for analysis? O’Connor diagnoses the traps in the psychobabble and counsels us on how to recognize them in the future. One need not necessarily agree with every nuance in the book, but through O’Connor’s laser precision in connecting the dots, he reminds us of our civic duty where the press is concerned, to question more and genuflect less.

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