Since I brought it up...
And no-one seems to want to take on ugly political/media realities, I shall link to it.
My review of Bernard Goldberg's book
Bias, a scathing indictment of Liberal Media Bias in the network news, written by a reporter who worked at CBS News for 28 years. Goldberg's no conservative by his own admission, but he was unimpressed when the industry refused to address his concerns about a left-slanted tilt to news delivery that he brought to network execs over the course of years. He details the whats, whys, and wherefores of this insidious trend, prompted by virulent, unpleasant responses to an editorial he wrote in the
Wall Street Journal in 1996. His colleagues in the industry called him a traitor for writing that op-ed piece, which is a pretty good endorsment.
On another media-related note,
this thread reproduces an EXCELLENT article on the methods that the anti-gunners use to manipulte the terms of discussion on the gun-control debate, and details not only how to defend against emotionally-loaded-soundbite propaganda techniques, but how to use these techniques to fight back against he gun-grabbers on their own turf. Written by our own member
bfieldburt, "Why Are You Losing Your Freedoms? The Semantics of Manipulation." first appeared in JPFO's
Bill Of Rights Sentinel magazine, it's posted here with permission to reproduce it. Additionally, the thread has many links to other articles on wordplay and semantic juggling. This is a MUST READ for anyone in a position to debate the forces of the gun-grabbers.