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The Media Matrix: What If Everything You Know Is Fake (Heartland Diary USA) Paperback – March 7, 2019

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The essays by journalist Frank Miele in this collection span from 2005 to 2018. "The Media Matrix" is Volume 4 of the Heartland Diary USA series. Most of these essays originally appeared in the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Montana, where Miele worked for 34 years, including 18 years as managing editor. Miele gained a wide following for his weekly conservative "Editor's 2 Cents" commentaries, which are now collected in the Heartland Diary series. The author, who is now a columnist for Real Clear Politics, relies on his work as a community journalist to filter the Fake News promoted by the Mainstream Media to get to the real story. You can read about biased reporting on a variety of topics such as "natural born citizenship," "the war on terrorism," "border security," and "Russian collusion." Miele finds common ground with Donald Trump and declares himself to be a sworn enemy of Fake News. The foreword was written by Brant Horn who was circulation director at the Daily Inter Lake for most of the years when Miele was at the helm. He describes the challenges Miele met in his capacity as managing editor and lauds him for not giving up on his responsibility to present a fair and balanced news report even while writing conservative commentary under his own name for many years.The afterword by economist Richard L. Spencer is the introduction to the entire Heartland Diary USA series. Spencer commends Miele as "America's diarist" and believes that Miele's columns represent a vital resource for future historians.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Heartland Press (March 7, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 338 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1732963339
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1732963337
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.85 x 9 inches
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Frank D. Miele is a conservative columnist at RealClearPolitics.com. He is also the moderator of www.HeartlandDiaryUSA.com. He worked as an award-winning community journalist for most of four decades, including 34 years at the Daily Inter Lake in Kalispell, Montana, where he was managing editor from 2000 to 2018. Miele’s “Editor’s 2 Cents” column was a regular feature in the newspaper from 2004 to 2018 and won him a broad following among conservatives across the nation. He lives with his wife and children in Kalispell. For the record, he is not related to the Frank Miele who is the editor of Skeptic magazine.

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Mariah
5.0 out of 5 stars The Media Jungle Exposed
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2019
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With the 2020 presidential election looming ahead and a country deeply divided on key issues that go to the heart of what it means to be an American, what could be more timely than a great book that attempts to clarify the origin of that chaos in simple prose, educates without preaching and refreshes one’s dedication toward doing one’s bit to save this unique Republic of ours that is home to nearly 330 million people. Frank Miele’s latest book, “The Media Matrix” does all of that and more.
Frank is an iconic figure in the Flathead Valley of Northwest Montana where he recently retired as managing editor of the Daily Interlake newspaper; a popular daily for locals that ,for 18 years, featured his lively, weekly commentaries on local, state and national politics sparked with a generous dash of history, humor, literature and just plain common sense. An unashamed conservative, his pieces always encouraged lively, nonpartisan debate and op-ed participation from folks of all persuasions.
“The Media Matrix” is a compilation of his editorials from 2005-2018 that incrementally and candidly convey the good, the bad and the evil of a media force that envelopes us so completely on a daily basis that we are unaware that “our beliefs and opinions are being shaped and molded” by it. While some emphasis is placed on Fake News, one is also made fully aware of deceitful agendas that aim to silence patriotic Americans while corralling them toward an alternate reality that mocks conservative thinking, smacks of socialism & threatens to eliminate our most precious freedoms. Frank’s writing is truly an ethical, art form that rests high on a pedestal unattainable to most aspiring journalists. Open Frank Miele’s book, “The Media Matrix”, to any page and be inspired!
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llfarm
1.0 out of 5 stars Vast conspiracy exposed!!!
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2019
It's heartening to see that this claptrap only has three reviews and one of them is from the same rural area as the author.
Have you ever met anyone who insists that they're sane, everyone else is crazy? Did you believe them? If so then this book is for you. All, I mean ALL the media lies, lies, lies about Trump and the Republicans (except for FOX, of course.) To give you some idea of hoe "unbiased" the author is I read an editorial by him that compared cast Trump as a modern day Washington, or Lincoln or Kennedy. Honest, I'm not kidding. Oh heck, let's just include the quote. "This is a president for the times we live in. Try to imagine the founding of our nation without George Washington to steady it. Try to picture the outcome of the secession of the Southern states without Abraham Lincoln there to stand against it. Think of the Apollo moon shot without John Kennedy to launch it." That should tell you what's in the book better than any description I could give. It's just a fever dream about how you can't believe anything you read or hear (sound familiar?) because it's all a liberal bias and lies. Give this thing a hard pass unless you've bought the MAGA con hook, line and sinker.
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susan spencer
5.0 out of 5 stars The Author's Consistent search for the Truth
Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2019
I am now well into my ninth decade of life and have been reading national/local editorials since I entered my teens and could make my way to a library in rural WV. I just liked to read what was being said in and about different areas of the US. Little did I know that the USAF would take me to almost all of America, and I kept on reading.
I began reading Frank Miele some 10+ years ago when I was attracted to the title of one of his columns while searching the internet. I was immediately astonished that something as sophisticated came from a Mid-Western editor of a small town newspaper called the Daily Inter Lake published out of Kalispell, Montana. I soon found that when matched against others of the time, Mr. Miele exuded ideas of diamonds from the Heartland of America against the ideas of fool’s gold from the major papers of the NE.
One can ignore reality, but one cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality; and, that is the style you will find in the author’s fundamental thinking and comments, and that is what makes them so valuable for all of America. Many are now published in the first three volumes of “The Heartland Diaries,” that gathers real time history of the Progressive movement’s subversion of the Constitution. The author is consistent with a stark warning to our Republic: Follow the Constitution.
What is so alluring about Mr. Miele’s “Heartland Diary” entries is that they come from the soul, they are thoroughly researched, and they always have a critical point that causes the reader to evaluate his own opinions. That is one of the major clues of a solid thinker — soul in his writing that stands the test of time. I now vouch for his soul having read them once again.
The readings in “Heartland Diaries” are a serial history beginning with the advent of the 9/11 terrorist attack that briefly united all of America and then fell apart because of the Progressive lust for power. Progressives are degrading Western Civilization from inside our Constitutional Democratic walls through the “Political Correctness’” that destroys Good and substitutes Evil. They have set out to recreate America and the author takes that head-on throughout the “Heartland Diaries” within the administrations of Bush, Obama, and Trump. Reading these weekly articles will give one great insight into our country from the Middle of America that is continuously rebuffed by the Elites from the Far West Coast and the Northeast corridor.
Frank Miele, one of our nation’s most erudite editor, has created a true history of the political thoughts of the American people since 9/11 with the publishing of the “Heartland Diaries.” It is far and beyond the scope of anything else that I have seen published or read. It is educative, truthful, and helpful to all in sorting out their thoughts about the political time-bombs that we now harvest with the divisiveness among us that has been sown during the past two decades.
The author’s single attribute of a principled search for truth is so lacking by others in journalism, even though they have been given a special Constitutional mandate to protect the public. Mr. Miele comes to the party almost alone in his efforts to inform. And, that in my opinion, makes him one of the outstanding and finest examples of his profession. He, unlike others, never blinks at the truth!
Lastly, “Heartland Diaries” is a Tour de Force that makes excellent reading and should encourage productive discussion as it is a picture of our country’s last twenty years of political turmoil. It will become a document for our early twenty-first century political history as it tells a story from the perspective of small town America located in a corner of America’s Heartland. It is loaded with sanity! Enjoy, RLS
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Ereader
5.0 out of 5 stars Exposing the minority leftist view of the corrupt media
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2020
Concise summary of what we have seen over the past years in the so called "news" industry.
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Frederick G. Lubbers
5.0 out of 5 stars Frank is a very special writer who has researched extensively
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2019
Frank writes in a manner that is easy to read and understand and he is a Great Patriot. Very few writers have the knowledge that he has.
Jerry L
Columbia Falls MT
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