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A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media Hardcover – January 12, 2009
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- Print length184 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRegnery
- Publication dateJanuary 12, 2009
- Dimensions6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101596980907
- ISBN-13978-1596980907
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From the Inside Flap
Do the mainstream media have a liberal bias? Sure they do, everyone knows that, says CBS veteran andNew York Times bestselling author Bernard Goldberg. But the media crossed an important line in the 2008 presidential race, moving from their usual unthinking liberal bias to crass partisanship of the crudest kind, practically acting as spin doctors for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. InA Slobbering Love Affair, his most provocative book yet, Goldberg demonstrates how the media launched an unparalleled effort to ensure the election of the man they regarded as The One. From the thrill Obama sent up Chris Matthews' leg to the outrageously slanted "news" reports of theNew York Times, Goldberg shows in exacting detail how the media, abandoning even the pretense of objectivity, moved from media bias to media activism. With his trademark blunt, honest, insider's perspective, Goldberg reveals:
* How the media ignored, downplayed, or sanitized the rantings of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Obama's long-standing "spiritual" adviser, and the radicalism of former terrorist (and Obama associate) Bill Ayers
* How the Obama campaign, while claiming to be "post-partisan," kicked reporters off Obama's plane after their newspapers endorsed McCain
* Why Obama's election makes it more likely conservative talk radio will be stifled by a new "Fairness Doctrine" that has nothing to do with fairness at all
* Why the liberal media preferred Obama to Hillary
* What we can expect from the media's coverage of Obama's presidency
* BONUS: An exclusive interview with Rush Limbaugh on the unholy alliance between Obama and the mainstream media
From the Back Cover
"...Make no mistake: this isnot the same old liberal bias we have witnessed for years. In 2008, the mainstream media crossed a line. As a result, their credibility is in tatters. Hardly anyone trusts them anymore. This is not good for them, of course. But it may be even worse forus."
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- Publisher : Regnery
- Publication date : January 12, 2009
- Language : English
- Print length : 184 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1596980907
- ISBN-13 : 978-1596980907
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,813,171 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,951 inJournalism Writing Reference (Books)
- #2,477 inPolitical Conservatism & Liberalism
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About the author
Bernard Goldberg, the television news reporter and author of Bias, a New York Times number one bestseller about how the media distort the news, is widely seen as one of the most original writers and thinkers in broadcast journalism. He has covered stories all over the world for CBS News and has won 12 Emmy awards for excellence in journalism. He won six Emmys at CBS, and six more at HBO, where he now reports for the widely acclaimed broadcast Real Sports.
In addition to his ground-breaking book Bias, Goldberg has written four other books on the media and American culture -- Arrogance, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America: (And Al Franken is #37), Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right, and A Slobbering Love Affair, about the news media's romance with Barack Obama. All have all been New York Times bestsellers.
In 2006 Bernie won the most prestigious of all broadcast journalism awards, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for an HBO story about young, poor boys who were sold or kidnapped into slavery and were forced to risk their lives as camel jockeys in the United Arab Emirates, one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
In 2012 Goldberg won his second duPont for a body of work on concussions in the NFL, the duPont committee saying that, “Correspondent Bernard Goldberg’s interviews are sensitive and probing, moving the story forward. Goldberg and his team investigate the historical precedent of Lou Gehrig bringing to light new information about concussions he suffered as a baseball player at Columbia University and as a Yankee. The reporting raised awareness for the public, the NFL and Congress about this important health issue.”
Bernie has reported extensively, both at HBO and at CBS News, on the transformation of the American culture. At HBO, in the fall of 2000, he wrote the Emmy award winning documentary Do You Believe In Miracles, the dramatic story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey team and the most famous hockey game ever -- the game between the United States and the Soviet Union that revitalized the American spirit and helped bring America out of the malaise it had suffered though much of the 1970s.
At CBS, he anchored two prime-time documentaries about how the American landscape was changing. Don't Blame Me showed how the United States was becoming a nation of finger-pointers whose citizens more and more were refusing to accept responsibility for their actions. In Your Face, America was an hour-long report about the coarsening of America, about how vulgar and uncivil our popular culture was becoming.
Bernie has written op-ed pieces that appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, manners, and journalism.
He is also a news and media analyst for Fox News where he comments regularly on the state of the press and television news as well as on politics and culture for the network's top rated program, The O'Reilly Factor.
He is a graduate of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey and a member of the school's Hall of Distinguished Alumni.
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Customers find the book entertaining and easy to read, with excellent analysis and factual content. They appreciate the writing style and humor, with one customer highlighting the dedication page's humor. The book receives mixed reactions regarding media bias.
Customers find the book easy to read and entertaining, with one customer noting it kept their interest throughout, and another highlighting its excellent coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign.
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"Goldberg speaks the truth! Aneasy read! I'm a fan of Mr. Goldberg and his book speaks he truth! You won't be disappointed!"Read more
Customers appreciate the book's information quality, praising its excellent analysis and factual observations, with one customer noting how it explains journalism principles.
"Very informative book. Tells it like it is...."Read more
"Anexcellent analysis of WHO created an American Idol, and helped elect an empty suit to the presidency of the United States...."Read more
"I loved this book. He knew his facts anddid a lot of research. I lived it when I watched the news and changed the channel to Fox News...."Read more
"This book is well written by Bernie Goldberg.Not just facts and figures, but some humor tossed in to make it entertaining."Read more
Customers find the book factual and honest, with one customer noting that it provides plenty of legitimate sources to back its claims.
"So true, I never noticed or believed the bias before, not until I saw it for myself during this election...."Read more
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"...He is fun,funny, and a shrewd observer of the way the media works----or, in this case, works for Obama. The entire campaign made my blood boil...."Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2009Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseBernard Goldberg has written a scathing, even slobbering critique of coverage of the 2008 Presidential election by the American press. It is not a pretty picture.
Goldberg is the former CBS producer who turned on his colleagues in the mainstream media in 2001 when he wrote Bias, another scathing critique of the news media. A conservative, Goldberg thinks the American media has lost its credibility due to the fact that its liberal bias has seeped into the day-to-day coverage of news by the media, in newspapers, broadcast outlets and the various news magazines.
Goldberg is right in his assertions. Most members of the media admit their liberal bias, and while they claim that their political inclinations don't affect their coverage, Goldberg makes a pretty good case that their self-defense is pretty flimsy. Goldberg presents statistics that show that the news coverage of the Obama/McCain campaign was pretty much one-sided, in Obama's favor. According to the Pew Research Center, 80 per cent of journalists consider themselves liberal, and especially inside the Beltway, journalists favor Democrats over Republicans on the order of 12-1.
To buttress his point Goldberg notes that independent surveys show that 81 per cent of journalists favor affirmative action; 75 per cent agree that the government should work to reduce the income gap between rich and poor; and 57 per cent believe that American consumption of the world's natural resources is "immoral."
In all of his hard-hitting media criticism Goldberg uses hyperbole and sarcasm to make his points, But Goldberg's latest critique of the news media is a more serious effort. He makes some cogent observations about the media that most Americans use to keep themselves "informed."
For example:
"...life inside the media bubble is too comfortable. It dulls the senses. It turns even well educated journalists into narrow-minded provincial rubes...after a while, journalists inside the bubble don't even think they're taking sides of slanting the news. They think they're simply doing what's right. That is the seduction of the bubble. It lulls journalists into thinking that they really are fair and honest brokers of information."
Goldberg says that in the face of the liberal bias in the news media, conservative talk shows present an important, opposing point of view on current affairs. But, Goldberg suggests, that with the new Democratic majority in the White House and Congress, the Fairness Doctrine will be reinstituted, requiring radio and TV outlets to give both conservatives and liberals equal access on talk shows.
"The Fairness Doctrine isn't about balance at all," Goldberg writes. "It's about nothing less than raw political power - the power to cleanse the landscape of `too many' troublesome conservative ideas....Consistency has nothing to do with any of this. Liberals want a new Fairness Doctrine for another reason altogether: they want to use it to crush the conservation opposition. Period."
But even more important, according to Goldberg, the dominant liberal bias in the news media is a threat to American democracy. He notes that a free press is mandated under the constitution and it serves as a watchdog on the elected branches of our government.
"...Just as judicial activists exploit their position on the bench to make law, so media activists exploit their position to shape the news. Instead of chronicling the news, they decide to influence it; instead of reporting on a presidential election, in 2008 they tried to determine its outcome. There's no need to inflate journalists egos, which are already the size of Mars, but we have to be aware of the danger when a nation no longer has trustworthy sources of information, when every media outlet is peddling a line, selling a candidate, promoting an ideology, acting as press officers for the favored (like Obama) and the inquisitors of the unfavored (like Palin). It's not just journalistic ethics that are at risk - democracy is."
Ted Marks spent 40 years in the news media as a correspondent for UPI for 15 years and as a senior executive for Knight Ridder. - Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2009Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseYes, the title is an antagonistic teaser... and it probably has been the main reason for people to pan this book without even reading a single page. This is a sad fact, because Bernard Goldberg is relevant, honest and is skilled at writing in a common-sense manner that most everyone can appreciate ... whether you agree with his position or not. Golberg also provides plenty of legitimate sources to back claims and maintains a level-headed approach to his opinions. This is the manner Golberg has written in all of his previous works ... "A Slobbering Love Affair ... " is no exception.
What first must be pointed out is that this book is not an anti-Obama book ... and you'd have to read more than the title to figure that out. The book is about Goldberg's disgust in how mainstream media outlets have all but abandoned their principles of integrity and neutrality when presenting information to the public. Goldberg feels that the coverage of the past presidential campaign resulted in the media making "Faustian-like" deal in favorable coverage for Obama that may be disastrous for the media (and us) down the road.
"A Slobbering Love Affair ..." isn't groundbreaking and it isn't an expose ... it is simply a gathering of evidence that supports Goldberg's belief that the media has sacrificed its integrity for the gain of power. The power gained is the ability to get the American public to vote for "their" candidate by ignoring or downplaying (relevant) issues (Reverend Wright/William Ayers), displaying unabashed adulation toward their candidate and making ridiculous proclamations all along the way ("the most intelligent man ever elected" and the comparison to Lincoln ... even before being inaugurated). On the other hand, the media displayed no shame in displaying its effort to destroy the "opposition" (McCain) with an overwhelming majority of negative coverage, play-ground level name-calling ("ogre" and "troll") and even the fabrication of harmful stories (McCain/lobbyist affair). Goldberg leaves no stone unturned in the quest to document his position ... in fact, most all of the sources are readily available on the internet and archived eternally on YouTube.
Where the book becomes relevant is when Golberg thoughtfully asks himself of the consequences associated with such media power. In other words, they've sold their soul by pledging their allegiance to a virtually unknown man, got him elected to the most powerful position they could and now must stick with him, regardless of where he takes the nation (good or bad). What if he doesn't live up to the grand hype and the country sinks into despair or unrest? How will that be reported ... or, more importantly, will it be reported? The bottom line is what price will be paid for the power the media has gained? I think these are fair questions to ask ... and Goldberg, being a former CBS man (and democrat as well) is in the perfect position to ask these salient questions.
Top reviews from other countries
- Thomas Kevin PhillipsReviewed in the United Kingdom on July 23, 2020
5.0 out of 5 starsbuy
Format: HardcoverVerified Purchasebuy - Stewart KReviewed in Canada on March 22, 2009
5.0 out of 5 starsPolished and Funny
Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseTwo things struck me as I read this book.
First, Goldberg is actually quite funny. He deserves to be widely read. If only most media criticism was as witty and as topical. There is simply no comparison between an engaging and topical book like this, and most of the dreck that you will read in a typical journalism studies course.
Second, Goldberg is quite polished. The book is short. And the points are succinct and easy to understand and read.
Overall, if you want a first look at the strong case for media bias in the 2008 Presidential Election, then you must start with this book, regardless of your perspective.
Well written and fun, I think it is very much worth reading. - anonymousReviewed in Canada on October 5, 2013
4.0 out of 5 starsThe Unfortunate Truth
Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseBernard Goldberg is an exceptional writer and journalist. He minces no words, coming straight to the point. Bravo for having the intestinal fortitude to go against the grain, a/k/a mainstream media, which Goldberg tears to shreds with proven facts.
