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Summary: A Book Worth Your Money & Time
Review: This was an excellent book, which I found hard to put down. Yes it's true that there's a portion of American women who don't take everything read in a women's magazine to heart or compare themselves to the "no hair out of place" models used in them, but alot do. She gives a lot of information that only an insider like herself has access to, and the truth is the truth, the vast majority of women who are editors, producers, or members of the media elite have little or nothing in common with the majority of the readers or viewers they tried to influence, and books like these expose these hypocrites for what they are. Hats off to Myrna Blyth!
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Summary: So-So
Review: This would have been a better book if it weren't beating you over the head with the idea that it's all the liberals fault. I do think the media sell unhappiness to us - and we happily buy it. Interestingly enough, the magazine she used to edit, LHJ, has now become much more upbeat - and she's not at the helm any more. If these ideas were so important to her, why didn't they happen on her watch?
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Summary: A truly silly book
Review: This writer doesn't give us women enough credit. We read women's magazines because we like them--although I have to say that the writers magazine Ladies Home Journal was always boring, and features much more of the silly stuff that the writer accuses other magazines of printing.
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Summary: Absolutely must read for all women!
Review: Well, looks like someone in Chicago has a real issue with this book, and others seem to go out of their way to trash it rather harshly. A book of this type doesn't garner that type of review from a totaly disinterested party, so you be the judge. At the very least it would be a fun read just for the gossip aspect ...i.e. Hillary's baby shower for a friend at which these powerful women came and the lone Republican in the group (Blyth) gets a load of Liberal gossip. This book points out the obvious to some of us, but unfortunately not to all, especially to the young women. Blyth has much inside information about how the mainly New York media is rife with Leftist Media activists, trying to convince women that they have a myriad of problems and encouraging women to look for solutions in the federal government. She talks about how seldom these magazines and programs feature anything that doesn't fit their rigid Leftist agenda; how they rarely feature women who are not pushing causes approved by the Left; how a few women such as Susan Sarandon, Donna Dees-Thomases, Ann Richards, Marian Edelman, Hillary Clinton, Karenna Gore Schiff, each connected to one or more media-approved causes, dominate these media. Occasionally you may get Laura Bush and Lynne Cheney, but the Leftist heroines receive "puff" pieces, even the "second-stringers". Blyth says they paint picture of our lives that is far more negative than the lives of most women, because they really are out of touch with us. And they lure us in with scary warnings and then run features on the "stresses" in our lives. Check out the headlines on front of the magazines this week and count the "scare" stories. These stories often blow up the rare incident (one woman gets a disease in a nail salon, for instance) into an epidemic, giving women one more thing to worry and be "stressed" about. Read about the restaurant in Manhattan where the Big Media Ladies have lunch, about the Liberal Sisterhood and some of their uncensored conversation. It's gossipy and far more fun than any of the magazines or television programs these women control. These women, whose lives in no way resemble the lives of most of us, try to tell us through mass media how we should lead our lives, and they want to "inform" our thinking. We don't need them defining us, Blyth points out and, yes she does admit to having been part of this as she edited Ladies Home Journal for 20 years. Buy it. You'll enjoy it. Gossipy but with real insight into an important subject that is on everyone's mind right now....how the Leftist Activist Media is undermining the truth in this country.
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Summary: Acid humor
Review: What "You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again" did for Hollywood, Myrna Blyth's Spin Sisters does for New York's mediaville. Most readers will be fascinated by Blyth's acidity and humor -- but not those skewered.
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Summary: Spin Sisters
Review: What a great book! It's funny and fun to read, but also tells women the truth about what really goes on at women's magazines and in television designed for women. The models on the covers may be pretty but the picture Myrna Blyth paints sure isn't. The book is part expose about how women's media tries to manipulate us, scare us, and shame us into buying products. And part political, showing the subtle liberal slant that impacts women's media, but it's not a stodgy old conservative policy book, either. I laughed out loud more than once at the stories she tells, and I've already emailed my sisters to go buy this book. It's about time somebody blew the whistle.
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Summary: Such Insight!!
Review: Wow -- women's magazines are vapid rags that shift between sugar-coated stories and weight loss diets for the moms, and uninhibited, how-to-be-a-ho manuals for singles? NO! GET OUT OF HERE! I would NEVER have guessed this in a million years! Oh wait, there's more! ITS ALL A LIBERAL CONSPIRACY!!!! HORRORS!!!
Never mind that these mags couldn't survive without the billions of dollars that the beauty and fashion industries pour into them yearly, thereby determining much of the coverage. No, why do that, when this person, who used to work in the industry itself can do much better and hopefully wrangle herself a spot as a "feature contributor" on FARK News Channel or something. Utterly disgraceful.
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