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Project Rewire: New Media from the Inside Out

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Here is a tight, thoroughly readable crash course on the evolution of news media. The public is hungry for an explanation of why the mainstream news media is the the way it is, why so many important stories receive little coverage or biased coverage, and how it gets away with it. Judy Daubenmier offers a full-bodied context for this, plus the history of news media over the past decades, from Murrow to Murdoch, and a look at how new media (the independent journalism blog) is changing the landscape ahead.

If you believe network and cable news have a liberal bias, you may have to do some reading to understand this collection. If you know the meaning of "faux news" and "Rupert Murdock," however, you will appreciate Daubenmier's championing of the role of bloggers in combatting corporate media. Especially noteworthy are the items on attempts to censor and control bloggers. The 25 authors featured here are a "who's who" of progressive bloggers.

If you've been so brainwashed by the Left that you actually believe this dreck, then there is probably no hope for you. Otherwise I would suggest getting one of Bernard Goldberg's excellent books. It's not much for a conservative like me to admit that he despises someone like far-left newsman Andy Rooney, but I have to give him credit for telling it straight when he admitted on Larry King that most people in the news business are liberals.