We
recommend the following links and resources for "Fair
and Balanced" reporting on news, American politics,
and the doings of the Radical Right.
books
| blogs
BOOKS
Some excellent books do a great job giving an overview
of the challenge facing decent people in the US today.
We particularly recommend the following:
General
Eric
Alterman, What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias
and the News, (Basic Books, 2003)
David
Brock, Blinded By The Right: The Conscience of an
Ex-Conservative, (Three Rivers Press, 2002)
Joe
Conason, Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine
and How It Distorts the Truth, (St. Martin's Press,
2003)
David
Corn, The Lies of George W. bush: Mastering the Politics
of Deception (Crown, 2003)
Al
Franken, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them:
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, (E P Dutton;
2003)
Jim
Hightower, Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen
Our Country--And Its Time to Take It Back (Viking,
2003)
Arianna
Huffington, Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed
and Political Corruption Are Undermining America,
(Crown Pub., 2003).
Molly
Ivins, Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America,
(Random House, 2003)
Isaac
Kramnick, R. Laurence Moore, The Godless Constitution:
The Case Against Religious Correctness, (W. W. Norton,
1997)
Paul
Krugman, The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in
the New Century (W. W. Norton, 2003)
Background
Sidney
Blumenthal, The Clinton Wars, (Farrar Straus
& Giroux , 2003)
Joe
Conason and Gene Lyons, The Hunting of the President:
The Ten Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton,
(Griffin Trade Paperback, 2001)
E. J., Dionne, They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives
Will Dominate the Next political Era, (Simon and
Schuster, 1999)
E.
J. Dionne, Why Americans Hate Politics: The Death
of the Democratic Process, (Simon and Schuster,
1992)
BLOGS
Weblogs
(blogs) are an exciting new approach to reporting, where
people committed to journalism supply news the trained
gibbons in the national media either ignore or suppress.
For example, while the national media was concerned
with the price of John Kerry's haircuts, the blogs nailed
Trent Lott for his racist remarks at Strom Thurmond's
birthday party, leading to his long overdue resignation
as Senate Majority Leader.
The
blogs we recommend focus on regular news reporting and
also allow readers to send in their own comments, leading
to interesting further discussions with people of many
different political perspectives.
There
are other good blogs, but we want to keep the list manageable.
These blogs also list other good ones. Our list is alphabetical.
Eschaton:
http://atrios.blogspot.com/
Brad
DeLong's Semi-daily Journal:
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/
Kevin
Drum (Calpundit):
http://www.calpundit.com/
Matthew
Yglesias:
http://www.matthewyglesias.com/
Josh
Marshall:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/
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