The justBernard Show - Scott Bonn "Mass Deception"

Professor Bonn is the author of "Mass Deception," the critically acclaimed new book on the Iraq war and the G.W. Bush administration from Rutgers University Press. Bonn is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. He has unique insights into the public’s attitudes and beliefs, how they are shaped, and the agenda-setting powers of the government and the news media. Bonn has developed a unique, integrated, and interdisciplinary theory called “critical communication” to explain how and why political elites and the news media periodically create public panics that benefit both parties.