"What Liberal Media?" is a great book and I think that if "Bias" is a required reading for this class then this book should be also. Alterman spends most of his time in the introduction proving Goldberg's book "Bias" wrong. He says that Goldberg's book is filled with opinions that are not backed up by evidence. Then he talks about the four punditocracies, television, print, radio and the internet, and experts and the world of ideas. He spends time on each type of media explaining and giving proof that they are much more conservative than most people believe. He has a few chapters talking about the 2000 election. He talks about how Fox News gave Bush Florida. They announced Bush as the winner in Florida before all of the votes were counted. Gore was actually in the lead at the time. There was very little coverage in the media of how Katherine Harris, wi
I wish that everyone in this school would read this book or at least everyone in this class. I bet that if I asked a hundred people at this school whether they thought the media are conservative or liberal at least 99 of them would say liberal. This is because almost everyone at this school and most of the world are not educated enough. They hear things from other people and think it must be true. It makes me sick thinking about it. I want to make my point clear, "Bias" and "What Liberal Media?" are great books but they are both bias. Everyone should read "Bias" and "What Liberal Media?" if they want to see the full story. If a teacher, I will not name any names, has his or her students only read one of these books then he or she is instructing in a bias way.
th the help of George and Jeb Bush permanently wiped 173,000 registered voters in Florida off
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