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Title: Coloring the News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism by William McGowan ISBN: 1-893554-60-0 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (42 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: the Left are victims of the law of unintended consequences
Comment: In the same vein as Bernard Goldberg with his book "Bias:", Bill McGowan speaks out about the heresy of those who are purveyers of the news as reported by the major networks and the nation's leading newspapers. He cites the by-now familiar tale of political correctness gone awry thru yet another attempt by the politically Left to be fair and balanced. The hitch is that this group's idea of fairness and balance is as exclusionary as any you can name in any historical context you care to conjure up. Bias is bias whether from the Left or the Right, but man's need to feel virtuous coupled with his infinite capacity for self deception leads to a metaphorical snow blindness when it comes to seeing reality thru a clear lens.
McGowan's thesis is that the media, in an attempt to be more inclusive of different opinions in the newsroom, has hired reporters who have become advocates for their particular issues which has resulted in the omission of facts unsupportive of that individuals particular advocacy. This has reduced to a stream of issue advocacy reportage on subjects such as racial relations, gay and lesbian musings, feminist positions, the homeless, global warming, and PETA to name just a few. The result has been a steady stream of slanted world views conflicting with those of mainstream America. According to McGowan this has fueled the rise of talk-radio and the internet as mediums where dissenting listeners and viewers can now go and get there information. One might aver that this syndrome is also responsible for the falling market share of the major networks juxtaposed to the commensurately risng share garnered by the Fox Network.
This trend is merely another example of trends going to extremes before correcting back to more normative levels. In this instance most of those on the Right would suggest that it's about time. As an example, the media became furious with Richard Nixon for labeling Helen Gahagan Douglas a Communist back in 1948 and they never forgave him for it. This would suggest that Left-leaning bias goes back far beyond this recent period that McGowan describes in his book. In any event, the explosion of power of the microchip, and its declining cost has propelled the proliferation of information which has accrued to the betterment of us all notwithstanding our political persuasions. And, this has made a better world than the one where dictators have been able to persevere by preaching the big lie to their followers. Think Taliban.
This is another good book to add to your library of books on man's continuing search for liberty and justice.
Rating: 5
Summary: The power of propaganda
Comment: A brilliant and scary documentation that exposes the war the Leftist media is waging against America, Coloring the News is a must read for anyone interested in the truth. This timely book by William McGowan exposes the media's refusal to print anything outside its social and political agenda: the media has repeatedly passed up chances to acknowledge that gender integration has lowered military standards across the board. Reporters repeatedly fail to investigate obvious questions raised by their own stories, if those questions lead to answer that don't affirm Leftist positions. This book documents the media bias on issues about immigration, gay rights, and affirmative action. We see how the media used the murder of Matthew Sheppard to advance the gay rights movement -- and yet ignored the murder of a thirteen year old by a homosexual. The dragging death of James Byrd in Texas was all over the news -- yet vicious racist attacks against Whites by Blacks happens all the time -- but you wouldn't know it because of media bias. Other important information: The San Francisco Chronicle editor who admitted that reporters spike stories that don't reinforce their political agendas. Gay parenting: disquieting evidence of the damage it causes - evidence that was dismissed by the New York Times, Newsweek, and others. The unreported story about immigration: how the media helped to kill a much-needed national debate on the immigrant invasion. In the end, Coloring the News makes it clear that the media is the enemy of truth....and freedom.
Rating: 5
Summary: Eloquent and Very Well Researched!
Comment: William McGowan's "Coloring the News" places the mainstream media under a microscope analyzing the claims that "diversity" in the newsroom will improve news coverage and inform the public to a greater degree. McGowan demonstrates that not only has news not improved, but reporters have deliberately avoided covering uncomfortable and inconvenient aspects of many stories for fear of "stereotyping" or "offending." The result is a consistently sanitized and skewed version of events. McGowan makes clear "diversity" of viewpoint is significantly more important in a newsroom that skin color or gender, yet newsrooms, in employing more minorities and systematically excluding white males, and solidified the liberal ideological grip on news coverage. Ironically, in the quest for "diversity" there has been much less presentation of different viewpoints, especially conservative or Christian views. The unintended effect of all this has been a mass fleeing from the networks to other sources of news such as radio and the internet which atleast give some validity to the conservative viewpoint.
Highly recommended.
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Title: Arrogance: Rescuing America From the Media Elite by Bernard Goldberg ISBN: 044653191X Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 03 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Bias : A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg ISBN: 0060520841 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The New Thought Police : Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds by Tammy Bruce, Laura C. Schlessinger ISBN: 0761563733 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values by TAMMY BRUCE ISBN: 0761516638 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First by Mona Charen ISBN: 0895261391 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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