Books about Media Bias (Book Guide) - Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Going Rogue: An American Life (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 26. Chapters: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Going Rogue: An American Life, The Broken Compass: How British Politics Lost its Way, The IQ Controversy, the Media and Public Policy, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare, It's Not News, It's FARK, Free Culture, Blinded by the Right, Counter-Revolutionary Violence - Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda, Bob Kohn, The Republican Noise Machine, Necessary Illusions, What Liberal Media?, Banana Republicans, Weapons of Mass Distortion, South Park Conservatives, Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants. Excerpt: Going Rogue: An American Life is a personal and political memoir of Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican candidate for U.S. Vice President. The book became a New York Times #1 bestseller in its first week of release, and remained there for six weeks. It is one of only four political memoirs to sell more than one million copies. The first part of the book is devoted to Palin's experiences before the campaign; the second part details her life as a candidate for national office. The book is written in a personal tone similar to Palin's manner of speaking. Palin discusses the disagreements she had with running mate John McCain's campaign advisers, criticizes the national media, and talks about the importance of religion and family life. The "Going Rogue" part of the title derives from criticism leveled at Palin by McCain campaign advisers that she was straying from their carefully crafted message and publicly disagreeing with McCain on several issues. The subtitle, "An American Life," mirrors the title of President Ronald Reagan's 1990 a...