Greg Mitchell is the editor of Editor & Publisher magazine and author of the new book book "So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits -- and the
President -- Failed on Iraq" (Union Square Press), which includes a foreword by Joe Galloway and preface by Bruce Sprignsteen. His eight previous books
include two on infamous political campaigns, "The Campaign of the Century:
Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media
Poltiics" (winner of the Goldsmith Book Prize) and "Tricky Dick and the Pink
Lady." He has also co-authored two books with Robert Jay Lifton, including
"Hiroshima in America." His email is
gmitchell@editorandpublisher.com, and he blogs at http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com.
A hard look back at the past five years -- with all its death and destruction and missteps -- reveals that the American media has been sleepwalking through the war.
