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Article: Media critic, critique thyself: Eric Alterman's What Liberal Media? Is as shoddy as the books it attacks. (Columns).
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- July 1, 2003
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FOR MOST CONSERVATIVES, liberal media bias is a self-evident truth. For most on the left, it's a right-wing Big Lie. Last year, two bestsellers made the conservative case: Bernard Goldberg's Bias and Ann Coulter's Slander. (Much more solid--and much less hyped--was William McGowan's 2001 book Coloring the News.) Now comes the counterpunch from the left: What Liberal Media?, by Eric Alterman, who claims the media today are really slanted in favor of the right, partly because they've been cowed by complaints of left-wing bias.
The "so-called liberal media," to use Alterman's phase, have greeted the book warmly: The Los Angeles Times' reviewer called it "a ...