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David Corn (born February 20, 1959) is an American liberal political journalist and author and the chief of the Washington bureau for ''Mother Jones''.〔(Mother Jones Lures David Corn From The Nation | The New York Observer )〕 He has been Washington editor for ''The Nation'' and appeared regularly on FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and BloggingHeads.tv opposite James Pinkerton or other media personalities. In February 2013, he was named winner of the 2012 George Polk Award in journalism in the political reporting category for his video and reporting of the "47 percent story," Republican nominee Mitt Romney's videoed meeting with donors during the 2012 presidential campaign.〔Monica Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery, "Mother Jones' David Corn Wins George Polk Award," ''Mother Jones,'' (February 17, 2013 ).〕 As an author, Corn's output includes nonfiction and fiction and generally deals with government and politics. Corn has also been a book reviewer. On one occasion, he criticized his own organization when Nation Books published the translation of a controversial French book on Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 attacks. ''Forbidden Truth: US-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy and the Failed Hunt for Bin Laden'', by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié, suggests that the attacks resulted from a breakdown in talks between the Taliban and the United States to run an oil pipeline through Afghanistan. Corn argued that publishing "contrived conspiracy theories" undermined the ability to expose actual governmental misbehavior.〔Rutten, Tim. "French 9/11 Theory Finds Voice in the U.S." ''Los Angeles Times'', July 3, 2002, p. E1.〕 ==Books== Corn's first book was a 1994 biography of longtime Central Intelligence Agency official Ted Shackley, which received mixed reviews. The book used Shackley's climb through the CIA bureaucracy to illustrate how the Agency worked and to follow some of its Cold War-era covert operations. In the ''Washington Post'', Roger Warner called it "an impressive feat of research"; but, in the ''New York Times'', Joseph Finder claimed Corn was seriously distorting history to blame Shackley for a series of CIA failings.〔Warner, Roger. "The Spy as Bureaucrat". ''Washington Post'', October 23, 1994, p. WBK1.〕〔Finder, Joseph. "The Spy in the Gray Flannel Suit". ''New York Times'', October 23, 1994, p. A22.〕 Corn moved on to fiction with a contribution to ''Unusual Suspects'' (1996), a paperback collection of crime stories published as a fundraiser to combat world hunger.〔Weeks, Linton. "They Wrote the Book on Fund-Raising". ''Washington Post'', May 15, 1996, p. B1.〕 His first novel, ''Deep Background'', was a conspiracy thriller about the assassination of a president at a White House press conference and the ensuing investigation. Reviews praised Corn's mastery of the political atmosphere and characters, although they split on whether this was a virtue or, coming at the conclusion of the Clinton years, already all-too-familiar territory.〔.〕〔Polk, James. "The West Wing". ''New York Times Book Review'', October 10, 1999, p. 25.〕 With the arrival of George W. Bush, Corn became a harsh critic of the President. His next book, ''The Lies of George W. Bush'', charged that Bush had systematically "mugged the truth" as a political strategy; and he found fault with the media for failing to report this effectively. The book also broke with journalistic practice for its explicit charge of lying, a word usually avoided as editorializing.〔Hodgson, Godfrey. "Trust Buster". ''Washington Post'', December 18, 2003, p. C3.〕〔Hertsgaard, Mark. "Chapter and verse on the need for regime change". ''Los Angeles Times'', March 14, 2004, p. R3.〕 In particular, Corn criticized many of the arguments offered to justify the 2003 Invasion of Iraq; and he challenged ''New York Times'' columnist William Safire for claiming links between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda.〔Okrent, Daniel. "The Privileges of Opinion, the Obligations of Fact". ''New York Times'', March 28, 2004, p. 4.2.〕 In ''Hubris'', written with Michael Isikoff of ''Newsweek'', Corn analyzed the Bush administration's drive toward the invasion. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Corn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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