Do the mainstream media have a liberal bias? Sure they do, says CBS veteran and New York Times bestselling author Bernard Goldberg. But the media crossed an important line in the 2008 presidential race, moving from their usual unthinking liberal bias to crass partisanship of the crudest kind, practically acting as spin doctors for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. In A Slobbering Love Affair, his most provocative book yet, Goldberg demonstrates how the media launched an unparalleled effort to ensure the election of the man they regarded as the One. From the thrill Obama sent up Chris Matthews's leg to the outrageously slanted "news" reports of the New York Times, Goldberg shows in exacting detail how the media, abandoning even the pretense of objectivity, moved from media bias to media activism. With his trademark blunt, honest insider's perspective, Goldberg reveals: -How the media ignored, downplayed, or sanitized the rantings of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Obama's long-standing "spiritual" adviser, and the radicalism of former terrorist (and Obama associate) Bill Ayers-How the Obama campaign, while claiming to be "post-partisan," kicked reporters off Obama's plane after their newspapers endorsed McCain-Why Obama's election makes it more likely conservative talk radio will be stifled by a new "Fairness Doctrine" that has nothing to do with fairness at all-Why the liberal media preferred Obama to Hillary-What we can expect from the media's coverage of Obama's presidency-BONUS: An exclusive interview with Rush Limbaugh on the unholy alliance between Obama and the mainstream mediaA blistering takedown of the media's slavish support for Obama, A Slobbering Love Affair highlights how the mainstream media has not only surrendered its integrity and objectivity but could even endanger our democracy.
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Bernard Goldberg is a television news reporter, FOX News media analyst, and the author of four bestselling books, including the New York Times bestseller Bias. He has won six Emmy Awards for his reporting at CBS News and three more for his reports for the critically acclaimed HBO program Real Sports. His op-ed pieces have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Winner of several AudioFile Earphones Awards and a multiple finalist for the APA's prestigious Audie Award, Alan Sklar has narrated nearly two hundred audiobooks, including Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden, The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings by Thomas Maier, and The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright. Named a Best Voice of 2009 by AudioFile magazine, his work has earned him a Booklist Editors' Choice Award (twice), a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and Audiobook of the Year by ForeWord magazine. The Dartmouth graduate's theatre credits include Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, The Seagull, and many modern roles. Alan has also narrated thousands of corporate videos for clients such as NASA,Sikorsky Aircraft, IBM, Dannon, Pfizer, AT&T, and SONY. For several years, he has been the spokesman for TracFone Wireless Co. and can often be seen and heard on TracFone radio and TV spots and infomercials."I am so pleased, as is my husband, to have found a narrator that holds our attention so well that we have come to compare every other narrator to him (you). So far we have found none with such a talent as yours. We very much plan to listen to as many of your works as we can find." -Sandi King, a letter to Mr. Sklar
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By Stewart Kiff
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Two things struck me as I read this book.
First, Goldberg is actually quite funny. He deserves to be widely read. If only most media criticism was as witty and as topical. There is simply no comparison between an engaging and topical book like this, and most of the dreck that you will read in a typical journalism studies course.
Second, Goldberg is quite polished. The book is short. And the points are succinct and easy to understand and read.
Overall, if you want a first look at the strong case for media bias in the 2008 Presidential Election, then you must start with this book, regardless of your perspective.
Well written and fun, I think it is very much worth reading.
First, Goldberg is actually quite funny. He deserves to be widely read. If only most media criticism was as witty and as topical. There is simply no comparison between an engaging and topical book like this, and most of the dreck that you will read in a typical journalism studies course.
Second, Goldberg is quite polished. The book is short. And the points are succinct and easy to understand and read.
Overall, if you want a first look at the strong case for media bias in the 2008 Presidential Election, then you must start with this book, regardless of your perspective.
Well written and fun, I think it is very much worth reading.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Dr. Bojan Tunguz
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The US presidential election of 2009 was historic in many respects - the first black presidential candidate by one of the major parties, the first female VP candidate on the Republican ticket, and probably a host of other "firsts" that only news pundits and political junkies care about. The election was also unprecedented in the following regard: never before has the media been so blatantly and unapologetically in the pocket of one candidate. The overwhelming media bias in favor of Democrats and liberals is well documented, but this time around it reached the fever pitch that went far beyond all decorum and pretense of objectivity. News anchors and newspaper columnist were competing with each other for the most fawning coverage of The One. The level of adulation was more appropriate for a teenage love novel, than for the professional news coverage by supposed grownups. This state of affairs prompted Bernie Goldberg to write another book, documenting and analyzing some of the most outrageous instances of this media misbehavior. The result is an entertaining read, the kind that we've come to expect from Goldberg, that amuses you and makes your eyes roll at the same time. The only problem that I have with the book is its length - it is much too short, and one gets the sense that Goldberg was pushing even to reach the existing page count. The book is a page turner, and one only wishes that the end didn't come so soon. This lack of length is understandable in the light of the fact that the book needed to come out in print while the topic was still very fresh and relevant. However, I certainly hope that Goldberg's next work will be much more filling. We cannot expect to subsist on appetizers for too long.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By F. Bain
Format:Hardcover
Well written and informative. Runs past the politically correct nonsense and speaks plainly into the topic. It is about time the media gets a review with a discerning eye. Goldberg is on target.
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