Stephen Kinzer
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Stephen Kinzer is an American author and newspaper reporter. He came to prominence during the 1980s when he covered Central America for the New York Times. In 1990, he was promoted to bureau chief of the Berlin bureau and covered the growth of Eastern and Central Europe as they emerged from Soviet rule. He has also written several non-fiction books about Turkey, Central America, Iran, and the United States's involvement in government ousters during the 20th century.
Kinzer was used as an example of media bias by left wing writers Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky in their book Manufacturing Consent. The authors show that Kinzer fails to quote a single person in Nicaragua who is pro-Sandinista and contrast this with polls reporting a 9% support for all the opposition parties taken together. The authors conclude that such a persistent bias can only be explained by the propaganda model. ("[They're] only 9 percent of the population [but] they have 100 percent of Stephen Kinzer," Chomsky quips.)
Books
- Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua, Putnam Pub Group, 1991, ISBN 0399135944.
- Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 1999, ISBN 0674075900
- Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001, ISBN 0374131430
- All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, Wily, 2003, ISBN 0471265179
- Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, Times Books, 2006, ISBN 0805078614