1.0 link 110544 <![CDATA[Artificial Dissemination]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-morris-and-glenn-altschuler/artificial-dissemination_b_110544.html Review of The Kingmakers: How the Media Threatens Our Security and Our Democracy. By Mike Gravel and David Eisenbach. Phoenix Books. 204 pp. $25.95

Like anchorman Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network, Mike Gravel, the former U.S. Senator from Alaska and Democratic presidential candidate, is "mad as hell" and is "not gonna take this anymore!" Since he can't yell from the news desk, he has decided to yell at it.

In The Kingmakers, Gravel and David Eisenbach, an instructor at Columbia...

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