Bias in the Booth: An Insider Exposes How the Sports Media Distort the News

by Dylan Gwinn

Most of us see sports as a welcome—even blessed—relief from the challenges and frustrations of everyday life. We want to sit back, open a beer, and enjoy the game. But many of those who bring us the game have a different agenda—they use their broadcasting platform to harangue us with their own politically correct preoccupations. If a seventh-round NFL draft pick who can't make the team or an over-the-hill basketball player declares that he's gay, he gets wall-to-wall media coverage and is hailed as a hero. If a stripper accuses college lacrosse players of rape, liberal sports reporters lead the lynch mob—with no apologies when the bearers of "white privilege" are proved innocent. In his blistering new book Bias in the Booth, sports reporter and commentator Dylan Gwinn takes you inside the sports media spin machine to reveal what they hope you won't the sports media are no different from the news and entertainment media.

260 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 2, 2015

Reviews

[Reader · Rating 3 out of 5]

Audio version. Interesting. The author makes some very valid points that needed to be made. I did not know there would be foul language in this book. I would have rated this higher if it didn't have any.

[Ford · Rating 5 out of 5]

He explained why I don't watch any sport talks shows and if I am watching a game I mute the game so I don't have to hear any talking.

[Samuel Lam · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a book written on the conservative side and it bashes any kind of liberal thinking in sports. It opens up a lot of different topics of recent sports stories that involve racism, sexism and people with different agendas. I agreed with most of the things pointed out and how the sports media isn't very fair. But the way it was written seemed to take too much effort on hating liberals. Maybe it's just the way they were labeled but I know for sure it's not a conservative vs. liberal thing. It's just people doing wrong to protect themselves or a system they've created.