Slander

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Summary: Major Media: An Industry in Decay
Review: In the book "Bias A Veteran CBS Reporter's Account of how the Media Distorts the News By Bernard Goldberg", a life long Democrat, blew the whistle on the TV networks. He provided vivid detail on numerous personal examples as a network insider. In Slander, there are more than a thousand examples of liberal bias with 780 footnotes sighting the documentation. Another book of examples is on the way by this author based on the C-Span book notes interview with Brian Lamb. Liberal bias is an hourly experience, but these are the most egregious. As lawyer she thinned it down to the examples that make it a devastating case against the management of these publicly traded companies. She was a clerk at a federal appeals court and worked at a major NYC law firm. To deny the media bias would require a steely commitment bad management. Coulter uses colorful, bombastic editorial comments between her facts and sometimes the bitterness is almost unnerving. Somebody has to be upset, given the bias that has developed.

The owners of media shares are only beginning to understand the extent the liberal view dominates the media. For seven consecutive decades, the media's liberal bias has steadily grown to the current situation that it has become a destructive force for the major media companies. Consumers are leaving the TV networks, major magazines and newspapers in a meaningful steady trend. The consumer base will decline to the point that the media companies will experience major management shake ups and investors will loss confidence in the Oligopoly profits they have enjoyed. It's not just the internet and talk radio as Coulter contends, it is the product that major media companies are offering. As any diligent researcher experiences the media get many of the facts wrong. It is not just liberal bias. The facts are blatantly wrong. The product has become inferior. For example, the Wall Street Journal has been loaded with factual errors for decades. The cable TV stock market shows are a joke when it comes to factual effort. For those of us that need to have the facts right, we have learned to distrust any offering by any major media. It is more than just liberal bias they have become bad products unworthy of consumer trust and support. Why do many individuals launch into emotional arguments over politics that have little or no factual basis? Largely, because the major media outlets do the same. This damages our culture. Increasingly, people are turning to other sources

The bias would be easy to fix if the management of the major media companies wanted to solve the problem they are facing. As Coulter documents, the media aggressively hires liberal staffers, bureaucrats and even Democratic elected officials. IT IS EXTREMELY RARE THAT REPUBLICANS ARE HIRED. Conceptually, that should be reversible, but what do you do about the culture that tolerates an inferior product on the basic facts. Many consumers are oblivious to the fact that the media aggressively supports liberal politicians and agendas and tears down conservatives. As Coulter details, in classic propaganda methods, lies are repeated with such great frequency that the average person believes it must be true. If you are an investor in any major media companies, you had better be very concerned. Media are obviously very poorly managed companies. The greatest managerial sin is to ignore your customers. They have done so in spades. Coulter provides information that conservative read far more books per person than liberals do. This is all part of the same trend. You drop bad products and buy good products. There is little difference from what foreign cars did to domestic cars. There is one important difference. The first amendment will not allow government tampering with the market place.

The media is nicely protected by the first amendment and that is just fine. But the media is not protected from its customers and that is just fine. While it may be hard to believe that decades of consumer abuse can be stopped, some how the American people seen to have a way of eventual understanding. When the tide turns and consumers bailout to the Internet they will not be easy to win back. Goldberg describes reporters and editors as "total dunces when it comes to economics" (page 217 in his book). It would appear that managers of media companies suffer from the same malady.

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Summary: A complete was of time and money
Review: ... Miss Coulter's arguements number one don't add up and number two turn into rants of anti-liberal propaganda. In giving many examples she forgets to show the Republican side that is sometime just as bad as Democrats. While neither side of the political parties is right or wrong her agruements that Democrats are always wrong are just plain nuts....

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Summary: Unique, well thought out views
Review: Ann Coulter starts this book simply, but brings more elucidation to her subject matter by page 6. Her writing is witty, thought-provoking, thoroughly researched,accurate and detailed. Not only a highly informative book, but entertaining and shocking as well. A great read for those of intellect.

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Summary: Without 'Liberals' Anne would be nothing
Review: I gotta hand it to these type of political writers who make a living 'exposing' the other side of the political spectrum. Most of her insight into the Liberal agenda is her perception and interpretation of events and political ideas she does not particularly care for...SO WHAT! What makes her opinion more high-browed and expert than mine or any other ordinary person? I really don't know.

If you like biased reading, then this is the book of the moment. Otherwise, if you're looking for balanced and critical analysis of political ideas (left or right) this is below the standard. Give some extra reading time to Bill Sapphire or Bill Kristol for the conservative bent, and then maybe Bill Moyers for the left.

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Summary: Is this for real?
Review: Wow! I have never read anything so full of hate and bile. This woman accuses "liberals" of a certain behavior and then goes on to exhibit it herself. As someone who is considered very "conservative" on many issues and "liberal" on others, I find this book offensive. Please, someone tell me this is a joke! She could not possibly be a rational, thinking human being. I suspect she is a publishing company's creation aimed maerely at provoking anger and outrage.

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Summary: Bias guilty of so much worse
Review: In her attempt to document the bias of liberals, Coulter is the worse of offenders... and goes much farther than mere bias. While her numerous footnotes (over 600) give the impression here assertations are backed up, any actual attempt to check those sources reveals their lack of substance. Page one she writes that "(Tom) Delay is compared to savage murderers and genocidal lunatics..." inspection of the June 20, 1999 Maureen Dowd column, "The God Squad," that Coulter sites however shows that she might be taking some liberties with the content of the article. Dowd attacts Delay yes, but at the start of the article. She then moves on to George W. Bush and writes about Al Gore directly before her "Crusades, Henry VIII, Salem, Father Coughlin, Hitler, Kosovo," bit. In the real world she is speaking about Al Gore when those words get written. In the world of Bias, Coulter lies. Speaking as a journalist, neither liberal nor conservative, Coulters' brand of ethics could be done without.

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Summary: Barnum was right...
Review: Please! 'Liberal Bias' in the media? Who owns the media? Ralph Nader? Michael Moore? NO! G.E. etc. etc. infinitum.

Only a moron could buy this bill of goods. Listen to CNN or FOX, or Rush or Hanratty etc. How many 'liberal' commentators do you find to counterbalance these frothing right-wingers who distort the truth freely and practice demagoguery a black art.

Only a fool could believe that a media that is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few large multinational corporations could have a 'liberal agenda'.

Only a fool could fail to see that Whitewater garnered millions of words more coverage than the S&L crises or the Enron debacle - both of which wiped out milions of pensioners. (and Bush family involved in both).

See the movie 'Bob Roberts' and learn something about how you are manipulated.

Wake up and stop being spoon-fed this tripe. It simply fails under the slightest critical scrutiny.

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Summary: Liberals hate this book & it's author...
Review: If you take the time to read the negative reviews here on this book, they all attack the author and her political views. They do not address the issues raised in the book. It's pretty obvious that they have not read the book, and are only engaging in petty attacks based on their political views rather than the facts.
Ms. Coulter is bias and makes no apologies for her bias. Other bias authors are James Carville & Maureen Dowd. Unlike her liberal counterparts, Ms. Coulter backs up her arguments with extremely well documented facts. That is part of what really drives the liberals nuts. They can't attack her facts, so they attack her personally.

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Summary: Slander is another example of a way to get back at liberals.
Review: Liberals have been the champions of those little guys and gals in the whole USA. A good example is the Social Security system, which conservatives have opposed since its inception in 1935. Likewise, conservatives are the champions of big businesspeople and the rich.
Attacks have been as old as history itself. They are effective-if properly used-with evidence against bad things-something that conservatives would love to stop for good by using books like Slander to attack the liberals. Conservatives attack liberal media-as biased-but what about Fox News??? Well, Fox News is a rightwing answer to the so called liberal (actually mainstream) media-yet it commits same crimes-like suppressing a report by two Tampa Bay Fox 13 news reoprters on the widespread use of rBGH hormone in Florida dairy cows. Conservatives don't want us to know those bad things like that shown above. Instead they prefer us to focus on liberals themselves-not their good deeds-like fighting against racism-and for equality.
Conservatives have hated and fought against political correctness-yet,in my view, it is beneficial to eliminate offensive names-like the racially offensive N-word. They prefer (white) Western Civilization as a sole model for ALL colleges and universities-not wanting to include African or even Latin Civilizations.
I have been a victim of attacks from conservatives. I will cite one example. If a person like me supports divestment from Isreal to force them to be good to the Palestinians, I would be labeled as anti-Semite and neo-Nazi. That happened in the divestment conference in University of Michigan. I have Jewish friends who oppose what Isreal is doing now-and I strongly hate Nazis. My best advice for all of you-look for concrete evidence first-before launching an attack on us liberals! Evidence is the best antidote-without it you can't prove it. Thus, attacks without proof are more like propaganda.

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Summary: Coulter Derails the Mass Media
Review: Coulter is outspoken, but she demonstrates the point that the media is dominated by the left-wing. The name calling and snippy comments are annoying, but easy to skip over, and some are quite amusing, such as the well-publicized "Eva Braun of morning TV". I can understand that she needs to be outspoken, to stand out from the other conservative books. This book does compare reasonably well with most of the conservative books that I have read, but will never match Rush or Buckley in style or passion. Coulter's analysis of the 2000 presidential elections, especially with the times for calling the various races, is well done and worth the price of the book by itself. The sections on the success of conservative books and talk shows also provides information that I have not seen elsewhere. She is obviously bright, and the book is well-researched, but it does not really tell a story well. Her style is a recitation of very interesting facts, and then BOOM the book is over. I would like to see Coulter take on Al Franken in a televised debate. How would ... react to a micro-skirt? Do yourself a favor and get the book instead of the audiotape with its annoying Valley Girl reader.