What Liberal Media?
| What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News | |
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| Author(s) | Eric Alterman |
| Subject(s) | Media bias |
| Publisher | Basic Books |
| Publication date | 2003 |
| Pages | 322 |
| ISBN | 9780465001774 |
What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News is a book by columnist Eric Alterman that challenges the widespread conservative belief in a liberal media bias. Alterman argues that the media, as a whole, is not biased liberally, but conservatively.
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[edit] Critical response
The Los Angeles Times called the book, "A well-documented, even-tempered and witty answer, I might say antidote, to such toxic recent bestsellers as Bernard Goldberg's 'Bias.'"
Ted Widmer of the New York Times Book Review said "'What Liberal Media' is bold, counterintuitive and cathartic".[1]
The New Yorker said of the book, "A polemic is nothing without passion , and Alterman's argumentative vigor is engaging [and]... the meticulous care with which his arguments are sourced and footnoted is in commendable contrast to the efforts of some of his more fire-breathing opponents."[2]
The conservative American Spectator said of the book, "Alterman's leaky little launch took on way too much water in the first chapter. But don't miss the last pages, in which he theorizes -- mirroring right-wing pamphleteers of the Birch persuasion -- that the media reflexively follow the dictates of a powerful cabal of conservative activists and misanthropic millionaires ..." [3]
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[edit] References
- ^ Widmer, Ted (2003-03-16). "The Wayward Media". New York Times Book Review. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/books/016WIDMET.html. Retrieved 2010-09-23.[dead link]
- ^ WhatLiberalMedia.com[dead link] - official website
- ^ Reviews, Complete-review.com
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