Monday, November 09, 2009
"Unmentionable: Best-Selling Conservative Books and the Networks that Ignore Them"
Well, there's supposed to be "equal treatment under the law"; so, it seems there should be equal treatment by the media.
This article points out the glaringly disproportionate coverage of books...
This article points out the glaringly disproportionate coverage of books...
PRE-LINK TEXT Matt Philbin and Zoe Ortiz write about it at the CultureAndMedia.org website:
"Conservative books and authors have been very successful recently, as evidenced by their showing on the best-seller list. Since January 2009, conservatives enjoyed 95 total weeks on the list, compared to just 80 weeks for liberal books and authors. At this writing Michelle Malkin’s “Culture of Corruption” was at No.1, and several other conservative titles have prominent berths on the list.
But as the Culture and Media Institute discovered, viewers of ABC, CBS and NBC might never know of the popularity and commercial success of those conservative books.
CMI studied the coverage network news organizations gave to 25 books that appeared on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller List during the first half of 2009. Of those, 14 were liberal (either in subject or author) and 11 were conservative. The books in question covered current events and politics, political biography and economics. CMI analysis discovered a dramatic difference between the amount and quality of coverage."
