Enterprise Reporting: Can anyone ever really trust the news again?

by Tom Chorneau

More than a decade before a distracted nation became transfixed by clumsy efforts to fake the news, a cabal of corporate insiders organized a far more nuanced and insidious persuasion machine in California’s capital. Led by one of the state’s top political reporters and his uncle, the managing partner of a big wheel lobbying firm, the operation netted the partners more than $7 million during the brief sixteen months the website was running.
The deception was clever and hard to spot, never anything too overt, just enough to push a client’s agenda along. It was sweet. No one could ever claim to be a victim and no one could ever argue a crime had been committed. They even had a line into the governor’s office, but had to be careful that nothing blew back on an unsuspecting Schwarzenegger.

271 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 30, 2017

About the author

Tom Chorneau is an award-winning journalist with more than three decades in the news business. He has served as a reporter and staff writer at a number of outlets including the Associated Press and the San Francisco Chronicle and his work has appeared in many publications including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. His new novel, “Enterprise Reporting: Can anyone ever trust the news again?” is available at http://amzn.to/2reqAb9.