Watch This,
Listen Up, Click Here: Inside the 300
Billion Dollar Business Behind the Media
You Constantly Consume
by David Verklin and Bernice
Kanner
The TV program coming into our living
rooms isn't free. It's a simple Faustian
bargain consumers have made but one with
enormous implications. It means that David
Verklin, CEO of one of the world's largest
ad-buying companies, and his clients-the
world's largest advertisers-control what
TV programs get aired, what magazines get
published, and how Google and Yahoo stay
in (very healthy) business. In Watch
This, Listen Up, Click Here, Verklin
and Kanner expose the inner workings of
the media, marketing, and advertising
industries. Readers will learn why their
favorite shows get cancelled, why Oprah
gives away cars, and how money, people,
politics, and new technologies are
transforming TV, the Internet, radio,
magazines, and other media Americans
consume every day.
Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new
technologies always lead to new laws,
never before have the big cultural
monopolists used the fear created by new
technologies, specifically the Internet,
to shrink the public domain of ideas, even
as the same corporations use the same
technologies to control more and more what
we can and can't do with culture. As more
and more culture becomes digitized, more
and more becomes controllable, even as
laws are being toughened at the behest of
the big media groups. What's at stake is
our freedom-freedom to create, freedom to
build, and ultimately, freedom to
imagine.
The immutable fact of politics in
America is this: liberals hate
conservatives. Ann Coulter, whose
examination of the Clinton impeachment was
a major national bestseller and earned
widespread praise, now takes on an even
tougher issue. Cultlike in their behavior,
vicious in their attacks on Republicans,
and in almost complete control of
mainstream national media, the left has
been merciless in portraying all
conservatives as dumb, racist, power
hungry, homophobic, and downright scary.
With incisive reasoning and meticulous
research, Ann Coulter examines the events
and personalities that have shaped modern
political discourse -- the bickering,
backstabbing, and name-calling that have
made cultural mountains out of partisan
molehills.
A Number One
Best Seller!
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the
Media Distorts the News
Think the media are biased?
Conservatives have been crying foul for
years, but now a veteran CBS reporter has
come forward to expose how liberal bias
pervades the mainstream media. Even if
you've suspected your nightly news is
slanted to the left, it's far worse than
you think. Controversial! Real dynamite!
Dan Rather is said to be very angry about
this book.
