Media HOW TO SPOT New book explains what’s behind the disinformation peddled by mainstream media.


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BY DAVID A. PATTEN


n activist group of pro- gressives in August bailed an Oregon man out of jail. This despite six charges


of violent attacks against the mother of his children pending against him. What happened next was all too pre- dictable. The man cut off his GPS monitor,


broke into her home, then stabbed, strangled, and killed her, police said. He did so, they add, with six kids still in the house. To conservatives, it was yet anoth-


er example of the revolving-door folly of blue-state bail reforms. The homicide naturally drew a lot


of attention — especially how the big three TV networks, CBS, ABC, and NBC, covered the horrific murder. They didn’t. “Instead of reporting on this hei-


nous act enabled by their friends on the left,” reported the conservative media watchdog NewsBusters.org, “[the networks] spent important time boasting about the Centers for Disease


Control greenlighting omicron boost- ers for COVID vaccines.” By now, it’s no surprise that con- servatives and liberals live in different worlds. But there’s grow- ing evidence the collapsing credibility of U.S. media is getting worse. According to a Gallup


poll released in June, faith in the media is plummet- ing to an all-time low. Just 16% of U.S. adults now say they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers, and televi- sion news is in even worse shape at 11%. Both of those indicators


between conflicting worldviews over what constitutes fake news are authors Troy Anderson and Col. David J. Giammona. Their new book, The Military Guide to Disarming Deception: Battlefield Tactics to Expose the Enemy’s Lies and Triumph in Truth, aims to equip readers who don’t have degrees in mass com- munications to discern the truth from the chaff. It’s only fitting their anal-


have fallen by five points in just the past year. Also of interest: the disparity based


DISARMING DECEPTION New book from Troy Anderson and Col. David J. Giammona shows readers how to discern the truth from the chaff.


on political party. Only 5% of Repub- licans and 12% of independents think newspapers are accurately reporting the news. That compares to 35% of Democrats. Now jumping into the battle


“ I’ve never seen the level of deception, disinformation, and propaganda that we’re experiencing today — especially in politics.”


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ysis employs a military per- spective. After all, it was the great British WWII leader Winston Churchill who observed, “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”


Giammona served in war zones for


the U.S. Army for over three decades before retiring in 2018. He notes the ancient Chinese military leader Sun Tzu’s principle, “All warfare is based on deception.” He’s seen just about every disinformation ploy in the book. His co-author Anderson, mean-


while, has spent over three decades fighting for truth on a different battle- field — the media. “I’ve never seen the level of decep-


— Troy Anderson, author


tion, disinformation, and propagan- da that we’re experiencing today —


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