Arrogance

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Author: Bernard Goldberg
Narrator: Bernard Goldberg
Genres: Non-Fiction
Publisher: Time Warner Audio Books
Date: November 2003
Length: 6 hours
Ratings:
  • Book Rating: 4/5
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Overview

In December of 2001, Emmy Award-winning journalist Bernard Goldberg charged the mainstream media with slanting the news and created a firestorm with his controversial bestseller Bias. Now Goldberg goes beyond identifying the media's partiality and explains how the slanting of the news is all but inevitable in the current climate—and why the media's stars continue to deny the industry's condition. In this fascinating report, Goldberg lays out his rallying cry, unafraid to name names, and prescribes the difficult remedies that must take place if genuinely balanced news is to survive.

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Facts back the thesis

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 5/5

Arrogance

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 1/5

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Facts back the thesis

Written by Anonymous on June 13th, 2006

  • Book Rating: 5/5

Great book with an appropriate title. Mr. Goldberg is much stronger in his condemnation of the MSM this time around. Good for him, and good for us. After listening to the 25 or so well documented examples of the MSM bending, twisting or otherwise misreporting the basic facts or not reporting relevant facts or often completely ignoring a story when the facts or the story doesn't fit the preconceived (liberal) view of the way the world should be, one must recognize that the MSM is at best broken or at worst purposefully evil. In either case, Arrogance is appropriate, as it appears they think that rest of us are too stupid to notice.

Arrogance

Written by Anonymous on October 19th, 2005

  • Book Rating: 1/5

I don't usually take the time to write reviews, but this book was a real disappointment. Stripped of its hyperbole, this book doesn't make a really strong case. As a specific example, Mr. Goldberg complains about an instance in the 2000 Gore-Bush campaign in which Democrats charged that Republicans had used subliminal messages in their ads. Specifically, the ad flashed up the word "Rats" for a couple of frames, or about 1/30th of a second. Mr. Goldberg simply implies that it was wrong for the New York Times to have run such a story, but does not make a factual argument against it. His implication is that something which is only presented for 1/30th of a second can't be important, and ignores whatever is known or unknown about the effectiveness of subliminal advertising. Overall, I thought his arguments were pretty weak, and unless you agreed with his view already, it was an unpersuasive book. I would stay away from this book.

Great Book

Written by Anonymous from Austin, TX on February 24th, 2005

  • Book Rating: 5/5

This is a great book. Not only does he give great reasoning, he cites statistics and real world examples that really bring things to light. Very entertaining and informative.

Arrogance

Written by Anonymous from lacrosse, FL on August 16th, 2004

  • Book Rating: 5/5

Even liberals must admit that Godlberg has done an excellent job of proving his point that there is a liberal--intended or unintended--bias in media, resulting in an arrogance that permeates much of the media establishment in the U.S. Give us more!

Selected Reviews

Facts back the thesis

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 5/5

Arrogance

by Anonymous
  • Book Rating: 1/5

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