James Ridgeway
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Radio: Bio of James Ridgeway
May 28, 2006
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James Ridgeway is Mother Jones' Washington bureau chief. A longtime Washington correspondent for the Village Voice, Ridgeway helped launch the modern muckraking era when he revealed that General Motors had hired private eyes to spy on a then-obscure consumer advocate named Ralph Nader. The expose prompted hearings on Capitol Hill (in which G.M. President James Roche was eventually forced to apologize to Nader) and made Nader's book, "Unsafe at Any Speed," a bestseller.
Ridgeway has written 16 books, including 2005's "The Five Unanswered Questions About 9/11." His broad-based national reporting has appeared in publications ranging from Harper's to The Economist and the New York Times Magazine. He is known for his writing on the American right wing, from the mainstream conservative movement to the far right. He has also reported many international stories, including the coup in Haiti and the democratic revolution in Eastern Europe. Ridgeway co-directed "Blood in the Face," a companion film to his book by the same name, as well as "Feed," a documentary on the 1992 presidential campaign. Recently he launched Ridgewayng.com, a web site for short news videos.
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