{"product_id":"9781844678396","title":"The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work","description":"Factual errors, ham-fisted analysis, and contradictory assertions—compounded by a penchant for mixed metaphors and name-dropping—distinguish the work of Pulitzer Prize–winning \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e columnist and author Thomas Friedman. \u003ci\u003eThe Imperial Messenger\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the true value of this media darling, a risible writer whose success tells us much about the failures of contemporary journalism. Belén Fernández dissects the Friedman corpus with wit and journalistic savvy to expose newsroom practices that favor macho rhetoric over serious inquiry, a pacified readership over an empowered one, and reductionist analysis over integrity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Imperial Messenger is polemic at its best, relentless in its attack on this apologist for American empire and passionate in its commitment to justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the series\u003c\/b\u003e: \u003ci\u003eCounterblasts\u003c\/i\u003e is a new Verso series that aims to revive the tradition of polemical writinginaugurated by Puritan and leveller pamphleteers in the seventeenth century, when in the wordsof one of them, Gerard Winstanley, the old world was “running up like parchment in the fire.”From 1640 to 1663, a leading bookseller and publisher, George Thomason, recorded that hiscollection alone contained over twenty thousand pamphlets. such polemics reappeared bothbefore and during the French, Russian, Chinese and Cuban revolutions of the last century.In a period of conformity where politicians, media barons and their ideologicalhirelings rarely challenge the basis of existing society, it’s time to revive the tradition.Verso’s \u003ci\u003eCounterblasts\u003c\/i\u003e will challenge the apologists of Empire and Capital.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172465918192,"sku":"9781844678396","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781844678396_p0.jpg?v=1763744180","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781844678396","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}