Media critic, critique thyself: Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media? Is as shoddy as the books it attacks. (Columns).
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Published | 2003-07-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Cathy Young |
FOR MOST CONSERVATIVES, liberal media bias is a self-evident truth. For most on the left, it's a right-wing Big Lie. Last year, two bestsellers made the conservative case: Bernard Goldberg's Bias and Ann Coulter's Slander. (Much more solid--and much less hyped--was William McGowan's 2001 book Coloring the News.) Now comes the counterpunch from the left: What Liberal Media?, by Eric Alterman, who claims the media today are really slanted in favor of the right, partly because they've been cowed by complaints of left-wing bias.
The "so-called liberal media," to use Alterman's...
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