Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media

by Martin A. Lee

A vital handbook for deciphering widespread media bias, this book dissects news coverage of a wide range of issues--taxes, the Persian Gulf, social security, abortion, drugs, environmental pollution, U.S.-Soviet relations, terrorism, the Third World--and exposes the key stories that have been censored or glossed over by major media. **Lightning Print On Demand Title

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics

419 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1960

Reviews

[Lyn Jensen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pertinent passage:

"U. S. officials openly flaunted their disregard for the facts during the 1980s. "You can say anything you want in a debate and 80 million people hear it," George Bush's press secretary stated shortly after the vice presidential debate with Geraldine Ferraro in October 1984. "If reporters then document that a candidate spoke untruthfully, so what? Maybe 200 people read it."

BTW I didn't read this book two times, although the "Dates read" section insists I did. I started it 9/23/17 and finished it 11/14/17. I may have just deleted the erroneous information, I'll see if I did.

[Macalester Linguistics]

A 17.0