Knopf to Release Latest Huffington in April

By Dermot McEvoy -- Publishers Weekly, 1/25/2008 6:55:00 AM

Founder of HuffingtonPost.com, Arianna Huffington, has a new book on the way that excoriates the media, Bob Woodward and Tim Russert in particular.

Knopf will publish Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe April 29. Huffington, whose previous books include On Becoming Fearless, Pigs at the Trough and Maria Callas, particularly targets Bob Woodward of the Washington Post and Tim Russert, moderator of Meet the Press, as moderators of the Republican agenda, according to a Knopf release.

“If media had a face,” she writes, “confident, clubby, clinging to half-truths, and, above all, preserving ‘access’, it would be Bob Woodward’s.” She is apparently no easier on Russert with a chapter entitled “E-Z Pass Russert.” Other topics include President Bush, torture, global warming, a non-existent energy policy and, of course, the war in Iraq.

Knopf is planning a 10-city media tour that will commence with 20/20 on April 25 and Good Morning America on April 29.