What Liberal Media?
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What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News (2003, ISBN 046500176-9) is a book by liberal columnist Eric Alterman that challenges the widespread conservative belief in a liberal media bias. Alterman concludes that the media, as a whole, are not biased liberally, but conservatively. The Los Angeles Times called the book, "A well-documented, even-tempered and witty answer, I might say antidote, to such toxic recent bestsellers as Bernard Goldberg's 'Bias.'" [1] The American Spectator said of the book, "Alterman's leaky little launch took on way too much water in the first chapter. But don't miss the last pages, in which he theorizes -- mirroring right-wing pamphleteers of the Birch persuasion -- that the media reflexively follow the dictates of a powerful cabal of conservative activists and misanthropic millionaires, "the Conintern." (...) If, being an astute American, you know the media tilt left, then maybe, just for the sake of mirth, you should indulge the through-the-looking glass experience of Alterman's last pages." [2]
- See also: Media bias in the United States
