Customer Reviews:
 No Wonder the MSM is SO Superficial! June 13, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I counted 62 hypocrites described in this book and each is well-singed by Greenwald. However, for me, the most important part of the book addressed the right-wing dirt peddlers. Does everyone know that Matt Drudge, a disciple of Rush Limbaugh, influences much of TV and print-media "news"? Editors of the recently-formed internet newspaper, The Politico, are quoted: "Matt Drudge rules our world....With the exception of the Associated Press, there is no outlet other than the Drudge Report whose dispatches instantly can command the attention and energies of the most established newspapers and television newscasts." Wow! Greenwald describes Drudge as "the lie-spewing, dirt-wallowing, right-wing Internet gossip."
Does everyone know and find it acceptable that The Politico, which is given great credibility on TV news, is almost completely underwritten by a right-wing Washington fixture, Joseph Albritton? Now we know why so much Anna Nicole Smith, LIndsay Lohan, etc. get so much coverage, and why substantive issues get so little coverage. Can we expect better? Not as long as the MSM is controlled by Neanderthals.
 THE Book for the Post Nixon/Reagan/Bush Era June 5, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Glenn Greenwald is the writer for our time. I think historians will use Glenn's writings as a milestone beginning the end of the corporate propaganda era. Glenn has few sacred cows except the truth, which we all know has a liberal bias. This book is another in his impressive catalog exposing the Hypocrites in the corporate media and corporate bought government. Conservative apologists and the gasbags in the media will hate it as it is filled with bonafide facts.
A dose of their own medicine May 31, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Greenwald writes an online column for Salon, which if you haven't read, you must. He consistently provides razor sharp insight simply not available in traditional media, such as astute criticism of said media. This book is an unflinching dressing-down of the ridiculous myths that exist out there about "conservatives," from John Wayne to John McCain. No need to list them here--if you're even looking at picking up this book, you already know what they are, and are outraged by them. My only criticism of Greenwald is that he can from time to time be repetitive in his observations and points, taking, for example, 15 pages to say what could be said in 12. That's all that keeps me from giving this 5 stars. But don't let that stop you. Buy this book. And start reading him on Salon.
 Pretty good, but not very deep May 29, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book had one point throughout, which could have been made in one chapter. But that one point is pretty good.
Journeyman effort by Greenwald May 27, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'll preface this by saying Glenns blog is a daily stop for me. And that may be the problem. The book is well written, the information is well presented and documented and useful. But if you spend as much time as I do on the internet, there were few surprises. If you don't waste a large portion of your spare time reading about the nasty goopers like I do, this book will bring you up to speed in a most entertaining way. But while I enjoyed it because Greenwald is such a good writer, it covered little new ground for me.
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