- Hardcover: 720 pages
- Publisher: Random House Large Print; Lrg edition (May 18 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0375433082
- ISBN-13: 978-0375433085
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 15.8 x 3.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,144,954 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
The author, once notorious as a conservative attack-journalist trashing the likes of Anita Hill and the Clintons, repudiated his past in the confessional Blinded by the Right. In this blistering j'accuse, Brock mounts a less gossipy and more systematic assault on the right-wing media juggernaut of think tanks, publishers, talk radio shows, Web sites and cable networks. He treats it as a disciplined political movement, inspired by Communist subversion techniques, bankrolled by a handful of right-wing zillionaires through corporate and foundation spigots, tightly yoked to the Republican policy agenda and masterminded by arch-conservative Grover Norquist at weekly strategy meetings. By Brock's account, it constitutes a seamless propaganda machine conveying dubious scholarship, Republican talking points and antiliberal smear campaigns from think tanks and Internet rumor mills to the FOX News and talk radio echo chambers and thence through a network of conservative pundits into the quality press. Meanwhile, Brock charges, the mainstream media, cowed by spurious charges of "liberal bias," have abandoned their role as objective arbiters of truth in favor of an uncritical airing of partisan ideology in the name of "balance." The result, he says, is a public discourse in which the line between fact and opinion is blurred, poorly funded liberal voices get shouted down, "no issue can be honestly debated and no election can be fairly decided." Brock's critique echoes that of other liberal media critics like Eric Alterman and Al Franken, and cannot be accused of nonpartisanship. He is dismissive of the conservative nostrums whose purveyors he pillories, and his biting takedowns of Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and their ilk show he hasn't lost his taste for blood. But Brock's incisive, well-supported analysis and his street cred as an apostate from the conservative press make this a spirited challenge to the contemporary mediascape
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Review
“This is the most important book of the past ten years and mandatory reading for all who want to understand American politics and history.” —Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., author of Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
“A spirited challenge to the contemporary mediascape.” —Publishers Weekly
“In clear prose, Brock shows convincingly how . . . the accusation of a liberal bias has been based on shabby research and nonexistent evidence.” —Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel
From the Trade Paperback edition.
“A spirited challenge to the contemporary mediascape.” —Publishers Weekly
“In clear prose, Brock shows convincingly how . . . the accusation of a liberal bias has been based on shabby research and nonexistent evidence.” —Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Book,
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This review is from: The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy (Hardcover)
There is nothing more scary than the new right and their moral majority. The radical right is a threat to our democracy true evil indeed. David Brock does an excellent job in bringing the harbringers of evil Hannity, Fox News, OReily, Rupert Murdoch, Jerry Faulwell,Limbaugh, Ann Coulter etc to our attention.
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Solid, but sometimes dull,
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This review is from: The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy (Hardcover)
Brock explores the history and structure of the right wing propaganda machine, and its impressive success in influencing mainstream media. The book has two principal virtues: it goes into history, tracing the right from the Goldwater era, thereby including much valuable material not found in some similar volumes which focus more exclusively on events of the Clinton/Bush years. This gives the book a distinct and more thoughtful perspective. And it shows the endless interconnections of the various people and organizations discussed in substantial, occasionally numbing detail. By the time you finish this book, you will realize that Hillary's famous 'vast right wing conspiracy' is very real. The main fault is that it is often overly partisan and indulges in some gratuitous attacks. For instance, Kevin Phillips is spoken of as being influenced by two obscure Italian writers I've never heard of, who Brock says were also major influences in Fascism. Offered without further elaboration, this amounts to nothing more than a cheap exercise in guilt by association. Compared to the similar books by Franken and Conason, this one has, as I noted, more detail and more historical perspective. It isn't written as well, and certainly lacks the humor of Franken. It also focusses more on media and propaganda and has little exploration of issues and policies, except those, such as the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, that relate specifically to the media. (Perhaps the most comparable to this book would be the recent book by Alterman, which I haven't read.) Conason is far more interested in broad policy questions, while Franken's book, the most entertaining but a disorganized grab-bag, bounces unpredictably between media criticism, satire, and serious policy argument.
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This review is from: The Republican Noise Machine: Right-Wing Media and How It Corrupts Democracy (Hardcover)
The above title is an example of the type of smear by innuendo which is a major tool of the Right Wing/Republican propaganda apparatus. This excellent book provides an up to date analysis of the history, structure, function and financing of this machine. If you really want to fight the "evil-doers" or the "terrorists of the airwaves," you would do well to understand the enemy.
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