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Summary: Be Outraged - Both Parties, and Demand Changes
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I knew the liberal bias was incredibly widespread because I have known of many stories that were of extreme importance that never made it to the media. I was shocked that I could not read a story or hear a single TV news station report the situation involving our own intelligence (who are supposed to be bi-partisan) and a memo circulating among them suggesting that they take their "one time only" shot at the president via an investigation. This investigation into Iraq or any situation or decision in which would bring the most upset was to be called for in the beginning of the year 2004, I would gather to make the most impact. Even more disturbing was the fact that they stated that they would take this "one time only" shot at President Bush regardless to the situation in Iraq, good or bad, going well or not, they would bring this to investigation and do so with a good deal of voice. The memos were distributed in our own intelligence and passed out and planned by and with democrats only. It was an outrage, being that we were in (and are) war time. They chose party over the good of our country and this memo, (and the fact that they did not deny this), was proof positive. And the day I heard of this, saw the fact and the democrats trying to make it less important than it was and the upset among the republicans in the department and was shocked. However, this news, although it was well known, did not make it to the media. This was not the only occurrence, this was not the only hidden news that I became aware of either.
There has been documents theft, detailed documents from the military on Kerry and his reviews while on duty, (and they were horrid and explained why he was discharged, and it was not because of his purple hearts), and those documents were gone as fast as I read them. In CA., you had the top big wigs of the Democrat party showing up in support of one of the biggest crooks our state has seen, Gray Davis. He hid documents while running for office, had extremely suggestive ads (and proven outright lies and slanderous ones at a that) about his competitor and as our state sunk further and further the abyss, the democrats came out in force, Hillary, Bill, Gore, Al, Rev Jessie Jackson and more. They held rallies and tried to make the citizens of the state believe that the whole idea of Gray Davis's impeachment was a right wing plan to take over the white house by getting more power in CA., (highly unlikely considering the democrat counties are the most populated in the state and the majority of cities have republicans, who live in less dense populated areas). They stood there and got air time that was incredible. I could not believe that these people, the leaders of the party, were actually standing up there on their platforms and over the phone on the news and telling the people that Davis was a good governor and he was in essence just a target of the right wing conspiracy. I was in shock. Never have I seen such a display of political proliferations, media bias and out right lies by the leaders of one party to blame the overwhelming errors of their Greasy Davis democrat on the "other party". I could not believe it, (foot note: this tells you how little your democrat leaders care about the people in CA or the country - because if it comes down to winning an election, they will sell out their own families. They had no regard for the people who would live in CA and suffer for years from the likes of Davis, they had tunnel vision and the media was backing them in spades.
Those are just a few stories, but there are many more in this book. If you are so blinded by your leaders in the liberal party and via the news and media, (and the NY Times and the LA Times) who are no doubt at all playing you into believing and thinking exactly what they want you to think, holding back info and telling suggestive stories and inflating them and small trivial things in order to obtain their seats in the go., you really need to get this book, read it with all the perspective you possibly can, and then learn something. These are filled with facts, especially compared to any book out there I have read, including Al Franklin's bashing. This book is not an attempt to bash anyone and doesn't really do so. It even suggests that those newscasters now in tat the news for being liberal and hurting the president, were good at what they did once... and this author attempts to be as bipartisan as possible, in an almost impossible situation to be bipartisan about... When you read this you will know what you are fed, led and now think, is not at all what you think. You may be outraged by the way you have been "taught" to think and "taught" to believe. I think that all the reviews I have read here who gave this book a one star and then whined about things totally not in the book, (and by the way, you are transparent on nearly even stupid review you enter... who are you trying to kid out there? You only look like a desperate party of cheats, and if that fits, wear it).
Like I said, I knew of the problems, but did not halved such documented and thou gal evidence and documented facts that this author has. Now, it is up to us as a country and citizens, democrat and republican, to be outraged and demand the facts and just the facts alone and take back the truth. This will not happen if there remain those so close minded or pride filled that they cannot even write a real review or look at reality. This has to happen for all of us, and we need to join together and be outraged and demand truth in the news and papers. With partisan blinded eyes, this will not be possible... be outraged, you are fooled, do not let them continue to play us for the fools they take us for.
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Summary: Vital information about media bias
Review: ***NOTE: The person who composed the Publisher's Weekly review for Amazon about this book mistakenly refers to best-selling author Bernard Goldberg as "tilting-Right." That is patently false, as anyone who has done their homework knows. Goldberg is liberal and proud of it...and he is that rare liberal reporter who has integrity.***
Now, onto Bozell's book...since Bozell wrote this book, recent events have certainly vindicated his premise, that the mainstream media is not only dominated by Left-leaning newsfolk, but that many have an agenda to distort and destroy the records and credibility of Right-leaning politicians. Bozell has done a tremendous public service with his meticulous research and eloquent presentation of his case. This book makes Liberal apologists like Eric Alterman and Al Franken look foolish, ill-informed, and manipulative indeed.
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Summary: They'll killing off their own audience
Review: For those with any doubt that the mainstream media (MSM) is dying or, better yet, why it is dying, Brent Bozell puts those doubts to rest. Rush Limbaugh's audience of twenty million is almost as big as the CBS, NBC, and ABC evening news audience -- combined. Tom Brokaw `ascended' to number one among the big three during his time by letting the size of his audience decline at a slower ate than did Peter Jennings and Dan Rather. The good news is that Rather is leaving; the bad news is that Katie Couric may be taking his place.
Having defined the left side of American political thought and values as the center, it is easy to see how every smug MSM anchor, pundit, and columnist (few of them have the skills, balance or professionalism to be a real journalist; they are talking heads, entertainers, and armchair `experts') thinks that he or she represents the bright, center of the spectrum. Bozell dissects these `enlightened' positions on abortion, gay rights, taxes, the environment, and guns, allowing the MSM's own words to destroy what little credibility they ever could have claimed to possess. Then Bozell takes on Bill and Hillary, Janet Reno's seizure of Elian Gonzalez, the `disputed' 2000 election (it was those same dim network bulbs who said the Florida polls were closed and that Gore had won, when they weren't and he wasn't), and the war on terror. Maureen Dowd repeatedly shows her own special form of ignorance and hypocrisy, but she has a lot of company.
The counterargument from the left, from Eric Alter, Al Franken, Michael Moore and their ilk, is quickly dispatched with cogent rebuttals. Even the advent of Air America, failure that it is, can be seen as a conservative triumph, as the liberal moguls pour money into a no-win situation. It's the audience, stupid!
The basic problem is that the MSM critique, promote and reward themselves, with a tin ear for facts and for their audience. Brokaw claims that no one would listen to him if her were perceived as being biased. Well, he is and they aren't. His shrinking audience is fewer than 9 million in a country of almost 300 million. The audience is voting with their ears, their eyes and their pocketbooks, and then showing up at the polls and not on the MSM's Nielson ratings. And the result is a self-congratulatory, barely ambulatory MSM, withering away. Good riddance.
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Summary: THE TRUTH COMES OUT AT LAST ABOUT MY PANTS
Review: Hi. This review has nothing to do with this book. Instead, it is about Michael Moore.Michael Moore, who is overweight, makes me sooooo angry. The liberals are ruining America. I wet my pants when I think about it. This book enhances that feeling. I understand that you want to read a review about this book, but Amazon.com is clearly designed to be a sounding board for loons with little else to do than to rant and rave about how some liberal took their parking spot. Really what this boils down to is, buy this book. STEVEN THULEN
AUTHOR OF "JIMMY KEY: BASEBALL'S BATMAN"
STRIGHTS@AOL.COM
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Summary: Personal story of lunatic leftist tactics
Review: I just finished this book and logged on to write a review about it. I previously wrote a review of Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman, written by my friend Steven Travers, so I checked it out. I was amazed to see all kinds of negative reviews of this book, which sold well and even won an award, I think. Then I read these reviews further and discovered that none of it had anything to do with Steve's book. It turns out Steve writes reviews of books and movies on Amazon himself. Like me, he is pretty conservative. He wrote some reviews about Michael Moore, books and documentaries by him, a few about him, etc. Anyway, the stuff Travs wrote about Moore was not real flattering of Moore, but it looked to be researched and was basically within the framework of the stuff a lot of people write and say about Moore, who is pretty controversial either way you cut the mustard. It turns out somebody turned the Moore supporters on to Steve, how I'm not sure, but they all decided to give a bunch of negative, fake reviews of Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman. Lord, I could not believe some of the stuff people were saying about my friend. Terrible reviews. One stars. Calling him a liar, claiming all kinds of untruths about him, and the Bonds book had nothing to do with politics. One clown apparently wrote more than one of the reviews, and when I looked at other reviews I saw this dingleberry shadowing Steve's reviews, sort of the way a kid repeats what another kid says on a schoolyard. The guy looks like he has several aliases or something and gives Steve "unhelpful" votes even when Steve gives the best review in the lot. Is this the way the left operates? This book by Bozell details these kinds of tactics, and wouldn't you know that here it is, up front and personal. These people just hide and do hit-and'runs. Steve puts his name and email address up there like a man. If you like him or not, and he's opinionated so you might not like him, you know who he is and what he stands for. These people are cowards. This is what Bozell talks about. These people used to have all the power in this country, but not anymore. The way they deal with their lack of popularity is so telling. Just shut up or, if you have anything to say, be up front about it. The mainstream media wants us to believe they are just reporting the news, but it is filled with bias. Conservatives stand right up and identify themselves and say, "Here I am, this is who I am, agree or disagree." Judging from recent elections and ratings, most people agree. These liberals are so...untruthful.
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Summary: Couldn't be more off
Review: I read this book when a relative left it in my bathroom during a visit. My eyes almost got stuck in the back of my head as many times as they rolled.
Simply put those with money are the ones with power and are the ones who control the media (get a clue it is not the liberals.) Sinclair would be a good example of right-winged media conglomerates in control. They wont allow the names of soldiers who have given their lives to this country to be read on their stations - what a slap in the face. The Smith brothers (Sinclair) would not want us to realize just how real this war is. The reality of the situation may make us look at Bush a little differently.
Then they have the nerve to run an hour long anti-Kerry commercial questioning his service to this country? They should remember Bush stayed as far away as possible from Vietnam shaking in his shoes. Why does the media keep forgeting this!
Why is it that over 80% of Bush supporters believe that the U.S. has found WMDs in Iraq? Could it be that our right-winged media fed that to us and never corrected themselves?
Anyways ...the book gets one star for being so useful when we ran out of toilet paper.
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Summary: Unapologetic--about the left who hate America
Review: I've wanted to be in radio news again since being fired by a radio station who had a liberal news director in 2000. But I wanted to go there to make more money and be there full-time. Needless to say it didn't work out and I blamed the left for it. I still blame the communzis for trying to destroy America and her press. Bozell pulls no punches and shows no sorrow in giving the left who run 90-95% of the commercial media and 100% of Public (NPR, etc) its comeuppance! I think the left runs radio and TV stations to only hire those who went through the indoctrinaiton into liberalism at any college in the country. I also am a member of Bozell's Parent's TV Council--now I'd like to see a liberal pantyweight FIRE MY you know what for that!!! COME ON, LEFT!!! JUST BRING IT !!!!!!!!!!!!! Hurrah for you, Mr. Bozell--a fast-paced read. Already read 30 pages today--may finish the book in a couple of days.
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Summary: Weapons of Mass Distortion : The Coming Meltdown of the Libe
Review: In the book Weapons of Mass Distortion, L. Brent Bozell III presents an account of how liberal bias in the news industry is alive and well." "But here's the thing: The liberal media are headed for a downfall. Bozell demonstrates how their monopoly on information is at last coming to an end, in large part because journalists continue to deny the bias that infects their news coverage. He shows readers exactly how the media landscape is changing - and to expose the even bigger changes that are coming." "Bozell documents exactly how the news media deliberately attempt to set the national agenda through their slanted coverage. In the process he destroys the arguments that Al Franken and many other left-wing commentators have put forward regarding media bias
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Summary: A devastating book
Review: In this book Bozell absolutely destroys the mainstream media. He shows how an event will be covered if the individuals involved are Conservative or are Liberal. He gives examples of how this is done from real events. It is interesting to read the leftists criticize this book who have never even read a page of it.
If you want to know why you shouldn't subscribe to the Los Angeles Times this is the book for you.
Susan Jordan
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Summary: Stop the presses - somebody please!
Review: Liberal news media bias has been discussed since the early days of the Nixon administration. One book from that era - possibly written by Raymond Price - emphasized that near-unanimous liberal bias was a "conformity, not a conspiracy".
Well, things are much worse today. Liberal media moguls really do conspire now, even if there are some cracks in the wall.
Brent Bozell sure does have timing - a ticka ticka ticka ticka.
His book on liberal media bias appears to have been finished before the onset of the current political campaigns and was probably timed for release toward the end of an election year. But only in Bozell's dreams could it have come out at roughly the same time that Dan Rather and the honchos at CBS got caught with their pants down trying to use forged documents to do the nasty to George W. Bush.
As if that weren't enough, this book also coincides with Matt Drudge's unearthing of the memo written by ABC Political Director Mark Halperin to his staff, which virtually amounted to a "how-to" campaign manual for the Kerry candidacy.
Liberals and leftists are forever using the fiction of opposition and identity with the underdog for self-promotion. So they don't respond very well when they are in control and are loathe to acknowledge actually being in control, preferring to manufacture opposition and oppression.
Most liberals deny that there is, in fact, a liberal news media bias, but this is nothing more than pseudo-sophisticated flat-earthism. Even without the two aforementioned recent examples, one would have to be living in a cave not to see how the mainstream media has been co-opted as another arm of the Kerry campaign. This reviewer, by the way, is not voting for either Bush or Kerry.
Bozell starts out very strongly - hitting on the head all of the arguments that are conventionally used to bely the existence of liberal news media bias: 1) what about conservative commentators/talk-radio? 2) the news media is owned by corporate conglomerates 3) not ALL conservatives believe in the boogeyman and 4) look how mean everyone was to poor old Al Gore.
But as the book advances, Bozell often makes the same mistake that liberals make when raising the talk-radio red herring. His response to argument (1) is appropriate: there is a difference between openly-ideological commentators who overtly seek to persuade (some are conservative and some are liberal) and reporters who try to disguise biased commentary as objective analysis (almost monolithically liberal).
Yet much of Bozell's criticism is directed towards morning-show personalities such as Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric, who seem to be his favorite targets. They're both leftist, mean-spirited, and mentally-challenged fluff-deliverers, but no one regards them as anything other than commentators.
Still, Bozell never wanders that far from the target - reinforcing the standard analyses of media slant delivered by Rothman and Lichter, by Bernard Goldberg in his own book on the subject, and by Bozell's Media Research Center. He also provides a wealth of anecdotal evidence of liberal double standards that will make your blood boil.
Having said all that, I think that it's over-simplistic to analyze news media using a pure left-right dichotomy. Media is at least as woman-centered as it is liberal-centered. The two concepts are often synonymous: what passes for liberal ideology today is largely emotion-centered (i.e., female) pap. That explains the sentiment for gun control, where logic and objective analysis tend to show that it doesn't work.
But the news media isn't always as anti-gun as Bozell thinks. Yeah, they USUALLY cover gun stories from a Million-Soccer-Mom-March earth-mother perspective, ranting against bad men with guns. But when the discussion turns to FEMALE ownership of guns, guns don't seem so bad. These stories are inevitably written from a female-empowerment perspective.
Women shooting men doesn't sound particularly "liberal", but clearly women are virtuous whether they seek to eliminate guns or shoot men, who, of course, are never virtuous. This is just one example of a women-good/men-bad mindset that dominates media and popular culture and actually trumps conventional leftism.
Bozell expresses optimism that the wall of liberal news media bias is being torn down. He bases this cheerfulness on public skepticism about news sources, the emergence of Fox News as an alternative source, and the strength of conservative philosophy.
Amazingly enough, as recently as this book was completed, Bozell does NOT anticipate the blogocracy that brought Dan Rather to his knees. Conservative publications are now bubbling with the proliferation of web-page addresses of pajama-clad warriors looking for fresh game. Hugh Hewitt is their Schwarzkopf, and THESE are probably the best weapons against the liberal overlords that rule mainstream media.
Beyond that, I think that Bozell is somewhat naïve. The human mind is very easily fooled and people do not have to BELIEVE what they are receiving from mainstream media in order to find themselves acting on it.
Fox News might be more balanced, but Rupert Murdoch is too sordid and Fox's entertainment programming is filled with as much filth as that of its competitors. Fox's emergence as a fourth network hasn't exactly spawned a rebirth of wholesome entertainment. Clearly, Fox is not a reliable conservative warhorse.
And as for conservative philosophy, it is indeed more well-grounded in nature and logic than is liberalism. That's not proof that it's going to prevail against a still-entrenched liberal mainstream media and pop culture. As a conservative, Bozell shouldn't be such a happy warrior in the face of such opposition. Conservative philosophy requires one to walk a straight and narrow path but is cognizant of flaws in human nature that make it unlikely that many people will do so.
When Whittaker Chambers moved from left to right, he declared that he was joining the losing side. Bozell forgets that to be a conservative is to have a wry pessimistic sense of humor grounded in a fatalistic view that the life of a conservative in the libertine West is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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