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Unfreedom of the Press is not just another book about the press. Levin shows how those entrusted with news reporting today are destroying freedom of the press from within: “not government oppression or suppression,” he writes, but self-censorship, group-think, bias by omission, and passing off opinion, propaganda, pseudo-events, and outright lies as news.
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May 21st 2019
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I'm interested in this because of self-censorship. There are issues where there is only one view allowed, transgender people, certain religions that cannot be criticised, people we must love/hate, wars we must/must not support and any journalist who dares write against this view is quite likely to be cancelled. Fired. Out of a job. And the media boycotted by advertising companies and big brands who really couldn't give a shit, because to them it's all about money. I don't agree with this kind of
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This is Levin’s best book yet. Full of data and rich with history, Levin exposes the media for being so brazenly partisan and complicit in covering up scandals that get in the way of their agenda or politicians they like. Scandals like Roosevelt and his successors using the IRS as a weapon against political opponents or LBJ secretly wiretapping phone conversations of others went underreported by the media. Levin also calls out the media (specifically the Washington Post and New York Times) for b
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A great piece of work. It shows the pitiful state of the information sources that are available to the people of the United States today. It shows the bias and treachery of the nations media. It also tells of a great deal of their complicity in government abuses of the citizenry in past administrations from the start of the country. It also shows examples of what it's really like when the government restricts the freedom of the press.
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As always Mr. Levin shows all his sources and the book is hea ...more
Eye opening
I have been around now for 7 decades. Much of my adult life has been spent in around media and politics in one way or another. Mark has verified much of what I have experienced but seldom hear about in both media and politics. Great book!
I have been around now for 7 decades. Much of my adult life has been spent in around media and politics in one way or another. Mark has verified much of what I have experienced but seldom hear about in both media and politics. Great book!
This is my second Levin book that I’ve read and I will gladly read them all, Mark truly is the great one. This book contains a great amount of history that shows past presidents and other important historical characters abusing their office and their powers and receiving no attention for their crimes against the American people & the constitution. It’s rather amazing to see that as far back as the second president John Adams America has had to deal with the improper use of the press but never to
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Yikes. That’s my summary review. Levin seems to think that right-wing news outlets are free from any bias or corruption. He wants to paint anything demonstrating Trump’s obvious incompetence as “fake news” and “bias,” while ignoring how international media, with no reason for bias, demonstrates the same things. Also, he is a former Fox News member, but I guess he’s convinced that right-wing news is nothing but cold, hard facts. The comparison between left-wings coverage of a Broadway musical and
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Where Have All the Journalists Gone?
Journalism as we thought we knew it is pretty much dead. Put a fork in it. Mark Levin argues that, with few exceptions such as Lara Logan, many journalists today don't even try to be objective. They are playing as partisans and pushing a point of view. In the past, journalists at least pretended to be nonpartisan. However, one of the more interesting things Levin points out is how far from real journalists many of our major newspapers historically were. For in ...more
Journalism as we thought we knew it is pretty much dead. Put a fork in it. Mark Levin argues that, with few exceptions such as Lara Logan, many journalists today don't even try to be objective. They are playing as partisans and pushing a point of view. In the past, journalists at least pretended to be nonpartisan. However, one of the more interesting things Levin points out is how far from real journalists many of our major newspapers historically were. For in ...more
Poorly researched and hence factually inaccurate. Waste of money.
This is not an opinion book, it is a history book. It's dry and like reading a history book. Facts and jumps to more facts. Time, place, event- outcomes, laws, elections etc. From John Q. Adams onward- this relates all the times politico America has assaulted/ law forced/ conflated to forbid opposition by acts of law etc. the press or printed reaction. Before tv or radio it was mostly print forbids. But after that it was all methods. And not just by the Presidents of their eras either- other bra
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Thoroughly enjoyed this book.
My thanks to Mark Levin for his depiction of a media we have had to deal with today. My hope is that "journalists" will read the book and learn something. ...more
My thanks to Mark Levin for his depiction of a media we have had to deal with today. My hope is that "journalists" will read the book and learn something. ...more
This is not his opinion. He takes the time to lay out all the facts and quotes and you see for yourself the common denominator. This is the most necessary book right now in history so you can make your own conclusions and think for yourself.
Mark R. Levin is a well-known conservative talk show host, author, and former top adviser to senior cabinet members under President Ronald Reagan. He is also a talented lawyer and legal scholar. In this book, Unfreedom of the Press, he brings his experience and knowledge to bear on the issue of media bias and the claimed liberal bias of the press and journalists in America today. He looks back over our history including colonial days as well as Europe from where much of our journalistic culture
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Well researched book with a damning indictment of the mainstream press and the fallacy of their impartiality through the years. It doesn’t mean that everything that you read is suspect but that you should always be questioning of everything that you read.
This is an excellent read. It is the first book by Levin that I have ever read. I hear him often on the radio and thoroughly enjoy his radio talk show. The man is brilliant when it comes to constitutional law. I appreciate Levin because he is willing to call a spade a spade. He is willing to say that he disagrees with President Trump and willing to say if agrees with a liberal. You know very clearly where Levin stands on issues. And in, "Unfreedom of the Press," Levin does a wonderful job of exp
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This is a very good book for those who trust and believe everything the media says, or anyone curious on how bad the media really is. I didn’t want this book to end because I knew how much time and effort Levin put into researching the corrupt media we have today!!!! So here I write some of what he has developed.
It starts in the present talking about CNN and MSNBC the Washington Post etc, talking about impeaching President Trump. (Page 70 talks about the Media Research Center annualized one eig ...more
It starts in the present talking about CNN and MSNBC the Washington Post etc, talking about impeaching President Trump. (Page 70 talks about the Media Research Center annualized one eig ...more
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Wow, not even sure what I expected but this was poor. Funny thing is that I agree with the overall premise of biased media but the actual book is incredibly underwhelming and misses the point at so many levels.
A current and historical analysis of journalism in America. A profession that has difficulty separating news from opinions.
Levin does a great job in describing the press in the United States and how it is actually undermining the concept of freedom of the press due to the fact that it is no longer an objective source of news, but has become a source of political activism for the Democrat Party. I have said for a LONG time that the press is incredibly biased, and has, in recent years, actually gotten so bad as to be not just biased, but corrupt. Reading this book has gone a long way to confirm my opinion. I agree wit
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A very valuable read. I am hopeful that this book will greatly help the American people learn just how far our nat'l. press has been failing the American people and in fact has been helping the Progressive Liberal agenda to transform America into a cesspool of other similar 'Third World Countries.' Nothing will change this swirling into "the black hole" of The America's demise, unless We the people, again champion and demand a Truly Free Press. MSNBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, New York Times, Washington Po
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Excellent primer on the history and present state of the free press in America
As a veteran journalist (including many years covering politics and business for dailies) who earned his degree in journalism, I can attest Mark’s book is well-done and accurate. Truth should be the top goal of journalism and it typically is. Mark shows which presidents sought to limit freedom of the press and which journalists lost their way.
As a veteran journalist (including many years covering politics and business for dailies) who earned his degree in journalism, I can attest Mark’s book is well-done and accurate. Truth should be the top goal of journalism and it typically is. Mark shows which presidents sought to limit freedom of the press and which journalists lost their way.
No rating on this one. The author was all over the place. There was some good history and some good information about the press, but to be frank, I have no idea what the author wanted to tell his readers.
This was an amazing book. I had no idea of the corruption of the press and the spying that past presidents have done. Very interesting that President Trump has not done any of these things, like locking up reporters and shutting down the press. It goes way back even to Lincoln. It really puts today's environment into a different light - how past presidents got away with so much and today they invent stuff in order to resist. A book everyone needs to read!
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The role of the press in modern America is excoriated by Mark Levin. Levin presents historical examples of other failures of the Fourth Estate. There doesn't seem to be such an all-encompassing collaboration of the left-leaning members of various networks and newsrooms as exists in the current "resistance" to the Trump Presidency. It is a unique, and extremely dangerous, era when "freedom of the press" appears to be the cry of a cadre unburdened by professional ethics.
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A thoroughly-researched and carefully-cited exploration of the history of the American media through the decades, along with many contemporary examples of where the media have fallen short and purposely withheld truth, thus affecting greatly this important bulwark of liberty and the people to whom the media report.
Brain washing by the press
This book certainly documents the basis and self righteousness of the press of yesterday and so openly today. It should be read by every American.
This book certainly documents the basis and self righteousness of the press of yesterday and so openly today. It should be read by every American.
WARNING: THIS IS ONE OF MY RANTY REVIEWS THAT WILL CONTAIN STRONG LANGUAGE AND POLITICS! YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!
So I was hoping this book would be an unbiased look at how a lot of modern day journalists are more like propagandists for their own personal political beliefs. Many of whom are terrible TV actors... That is something I really can’t stand.
Apparently (I didn’t even remember until I looked up him up right before starting this book) the author has a talk radio show and Fox News show... so yea ...more
So I was hoping this book would be an unbiased look at how a lot of modern day journalists are more like propagandists for their own personal political beliefs. Many of whom are terrible TV actors... That is something I really can’t stand.
Apparently (I didn’t even remember until I looked up him up right before starting this book) the author has a talk radio show and Fox News show... so yea ...more
Mark Levin talks at great length about one of the more important issues in western media in Unfreedom of the Press: The shift left that many/most outlets have taken in the last ~40-50+ years, accelerating to a hard turn out into left field circa 2015-16.
He makes great points in here. Namely, that journalistic ethics have been all but cast to the wayside, in favor of promoting social justice and change. Reporters, writers, and pundits are not interested in presenting stories in an objective, fac ...more
He makes great points in here. Namely, that journalistic ethics have been all but cast to the wayside, in favor of promoting social justice and change. Reporters, writers, and pundits are not interested in presenting stories in an objective, fac ...more
So, if the liberals/Democrats are "progressive", does that mean the other side are "regressive"? Basically a compilation of cherry-picked to support the author's contention that the modern mainstream press is bad and shouldn't be trusted - especially when reporting on Ubu President. My favorite part is when Levin actually uses references from media sources he excoriates through much of the book (such as CNN) to support his contentions.
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Levin, you suck.
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“Unlike the early patriot press, today’s newsrooms and journalists are mostly hostile to America’s founding principles, traditions, and institutions. They do not promote free speech and press freedom, despite their self-serving and self-righteous claims. Indeed, they serve as societal filters attempting to enforce uniformity of thought and social and political activism centered on the progressive ideology and agenda. Issues, events, groups, and individuals that do not fit the narrative are dismissed or diminished; those that do fit the narrative are elevated and celebrated.”
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