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Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias: Why the Press Gets So Much Wrong―And Just Doesn't Care
Russian collusion. The lab-leak theory. The Hunter Biden laptop. Mostly peaceful protests. What if America's misinformation problem is coming from inside the mainstream media?
Fox contributor Ari Fleischer says most Americans live in a media-created fantasyland. Never before have we been so information-rich yet so poorly informed. America's liberal media keeps getting the news wrong.
In Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias, Fleischer notes that half the country is keenly aware that they are routinely mocked and looked down on by much of the media. The disdain shown by too many reporters for too many Americans is a major reason our nation is polarized and divided.
Today's mainstream media is dominated by college-educated Democratic voters who write stories for other college-educated Democrats. These journalists haven't just slanted the media; they take sides in our debates and are too often activists for a cause. There is no secret meeting where liberals decide how to slant the news. There is no central source of propaganda. It's worse than that. It comes naturally to the media because they're too much alike-they have a diversity problem.
It's time the press faced up to why so few people trust them and why they've been losing viewers and readers for decades. Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias is the reckoning they will never do on their own.
Fox contributor Ari Fleischer says most Americans live in a media-created fantasyland. Never before have we been so information-rich yet so poorly informed. America's liberal media keeps getting the news wrong.
In Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias, Fleischer notes that half the country is keenly aware that they are routinely mocked and looked down on by much of the media. The disdain shown by too many reporters for too many Americans is a major reason our nation is polarized and divided.
Today's mainstream media is dominated by college-educated Democratic voters who write stories for other college-educated Democrats. These journalists haven't just slanted the media; they take sides in our debates and are too often activists for a cause. There is no secret meeting where liberals decide how to slant the news. There is no central source of propaganda. It's worse than that. It comes naturally to the media because they're too much alike-they have a diversity problem.
It's time the press faced up to why so few people trust them and why they've been losing viewers and readers for decades. Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias is the reckoning they will never do on their own.
Readers Top Reviews
P. Pike
I loved this book! I'm 69 years old, and Ari brought back to me the way the news media/networks have changed since I was a youngster. We always watched the nightly news and totally trusted the objective reporting Walter Cronkite and his colleagues gave us. Now the media's reporting is so biased, only reporting what they feel their audience wants to hear. Don Lemon even said recently "Speaking very soberly about the realities of America and American politics right now — we sit around and we talk about these things and we want to give this false equivalence to Democrats and Republicans. That is not where we are right now. Republicans are doing something that is very dangerous to our society and we have to acknowledge that. We have to acknowledge that as Americans. We must acknowledge that as journalists because if we don’t we are not doing our jobs," This book will help you understand how we got here. Definitely worth the read(or listen - I got the audiobook)
Clyde Davis
I really like Ari Fleischer’s detailed analysis and critique of today’s journalists and encouragement to diversify newsrooms to include conservatives and those with different views and political perspectives
Appreciative readerD
This provides many examples of media dishonesty in recent years. It may prove nearly exhaustive. My favorite is the lie made up about Trump feeding ceremonial goldfish with Abe of Japan.
linda galella
Because I get my news from a variety of sources that include liberal, conservative, moderate and European, most of the information in Ari Fleischer’s new book isn’t new to me. It is shocking, overwhelming and AGGRAVATING to read it all at once. Fleischer has done a great job organizing a massive amount of information. Chapter 4 deals with the disintegration of media, (newspaper, reporting, publishing, tv), as the fourth pillar of democracy to becoming a weapon of “Suppression, Deception, Snobbery and Bias” and for the most part, the bias leans decidedly to the left. Gone are the days of honest, hard hitting, investigative journalism. We now have agenda publishing, truth be damned. What boggles my mind is the effect, or lack thereof, on the legal system. Where are the lawyers in the midst of all this prevarication that’s being perpetrated as truth? By and large, the demise of the press reaches its pinnacle with the rise of Donald Trump. It’s a mutual hate relationship and Fleischer provides details most people will probably have never heard about including what should have been an innocuous and innocent koi feeding event in Japan with Prime Minister Abe. The lengths to which a CNN reporter went in order to fabricate “news” is astounding and when called on her subterfuge, America is left looking foolish internationally. But wait, there is another example of international buffoonery that puts this one to shame. ABC World News and CNN fed off of each other’s emotional stupidity and declared that fireworks in London and church bells in France were in celebration for Biden being declared the winner of the 2020 election. Turns out that London is celebrating a 500 year old, annual event marking a failed assassination attempt on King James I and in France it was simply 6:00 mass! The European newscasters had great fun making mockery, as well they should. Additional topics include: details about how the media works, viewership, how stories come to life or get left on the cutting room floor, are too good to be messed with or are a worthy cause vs unworthy depending on your politics plus a deeper dive into CNN, NYT, COVID. Fleischer provided jaw dropping details for all of these. Ari also includes all his notes and there are over 40 pages worth plus an index that’s over 20 pages. He employed a staff to do research and fact check plus what the publisher provided. There are actual photographs of tweets and handwritten notes included in the body of the book that add to the veracity. I was never a big fan of his but after plowing thru this book I’ve had a change of heart. He is truly burdened for the media and for generations to come. So yes, my pup is snoring now. She was dragged out to go walking every 90 minutes because I couldn’t read any longer without a break. As a retired publishing exec, I’m sadden...
