Seven Events That Made America America (44 page)

45
Lou Guzzo to the author, January 27, 2001, via e-mail.

46
Ibid.

47
Ibid.

48
E-mail exchanges with Lou Guzzo, various dates, 2001.

49
Robert J. Donovan and Ray Scherer,
Unsilent Revolution
(Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 266.

50
Gabriel Weimann,
The Influentials: People Who Influence People
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994), 91.

51
Joseph Keeley,
Left-Leaning Antenna: Political Bias in Television
(New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1971), 28.

52
Theodore H. White, on William F. Buckley’s
Firing Line
, quoted in ibid., 47.

53
Hugh Hewitt, “‘Inbreeding’ Among Royals, Pitbulls and Editors,” July 12, 2006,
http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/HughHewitt/2006/07/12/inbreeding_among_royals,_pitbulls,_and_editors
.

54
Ibid.

55
Hugh Hewitt, “The Media’s Ancien Regime: Columbia Journalism School Tries to Save the Old Order,” January 30, 2006,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/619njpsr.asp
.

56
Barbie Zelizer,
Covering the Body
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 40.

57
Ibid., 35.

58
“President’s Assassin Shot to Death,”
New York Times
, November 25, 1963.

59
“The Marxist Marine,”
Newsweek
, December 2, 1963.

60
An analysis of the failures of the media in the Kennedy assassination do
not
require one to believe in a conspiracy to conclude that both television and newspapers, perhaps because of their having been co-opted by “Camelot,” or perhaps for other reasons, failed utterly to provide the public with
all
the relevant information. To have done so would have preempted dozens of conspiracy books and perhaps killed that cottage industry in its cradle. See Larry Schweikart and Jim Kuypers, “First, the Bad News,” working title, ms. in authors’ possession.

61
Keeley,
Left-Leaning Antenna
, 45.

62
David Frum,
How We Got Here
(New York: Basic Books, 2000), 36.

63
Charlotte Observer
, June 26, 1977.

64
Chalmers Roberts,
The Washington Post: The First 100 Years
, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977).

65
Oscar Patterson III, “Television’s Living Room War in Print: Vietnam in the News Magazines,”
Journalism Quarterly
61 (Spring 1984): 35-39, 136.

66
“Vietnam and Electronic Journalism,”
Broadcasting
, May 19, 1975, 26.

67
Daniel Hallin, “The Media, the War in Vietnam, and Political Support: A Critique of the Thesis of an Oppositional Media,”
Journal of Politics
46 (February 1984): 2-24, table on 8.

68
Paul Johnson,
A History of the American People
(New York: HarperCollins, 1997), 895.

69
Ibid.

70
Ibid.

71
Ibid.

72
Gladys Engel Lang and Kurt Lang, “The Media and Watergate,” in Doris A. Graber, ed.,
Media Power in Politics
(Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1984), 202-9, quotation on 204.

73
Von Hoffman quoted in James Boylan, “Declarations of Independence,”
Columbia Journalism Review
, Nov./Dec. 1986, pp. 29-45. The “frame” was ideological, not financial: Fred McChesney found no significant effects on the stock value of
The Washington Post
as a result of the investigation. See Fred S. McChesney, “Sensationalism, Newspaper Profits and the Marginal Value of Watergate,”
Economic Inquiry
25 (January 1987): 135-44.

74
Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin,
Silent Coup: The Removal of a President
(New York: St. Martin’s, 1991). See also Schweikart,
48 Liberal Lies About American History
(New York: Sentinel, 2008), 134-38;
Maureen K. Dean and John Dean v. St. Martin’s Press, Inc., Len Colodny, Robert Gettlin, G. Gordon Liddy, and Philip Mackin Bailey
(1996),
http://www.nixonera.com/media/transcripts/liddy.pdf
.

75
Richard Nixon, “Memo to President Bush: How to Use TV—and Keep From Being Abused by It,”
TV Guide
, January 14, 1989, 26-30.

76
Ibid.

77
Seymour Martin Lipset and William Schneider,
The Confidence Gap
(New York: Free Press, 1983), 48-49.

78
Ibid., 55.

79
Stanley Rothman and Amy E. Black, “Media and Business Elites: Still in Conflict?”
Public Interest
, Spring 2001, 72-86, esp. 83-84.

80
John Leo, “Bad News,”
New York Daily News
, April 15, 2000.

81
Ibid.

82
Jonathan Cohn, writing in the
American Prospect
, quoted in James Fallows,
Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy
(New York: Vintage Books, 1997), 79.

83
Michael Kelly, “The Game,”
New York Times Magazine
, October 1993, 65.

84
Joel Kotkin and David Friedman, “Clueless: Why the Elite Media Don’t Understand America,”
The American Enterprise
, November 11, 1999, 29.

85
Ibid.

86
Stephen Hess,
The Washington Reporters
(Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1981), 87.

87
Excerpts from David Weaver et al., “The American Journalist in the 21st Century,” available online at
www.poynter.org
.

88
Shosteck’s results are reported in Robert McFarland, “Conservatives Can Beat Liberal Media Bias,”
CNSNews.com
, May 25, 2000.

89
K. Daniel Glover, “The NRA and the Press: A Case Study in Media Bias,” Intellectual
Capital.com
, September 2, 1999.

90
Will Lester, “Web Attracts Younger News Audience,”
Washington Post
online edition, June 11, 2000.

91
Matt Drudge, “Cable Quake: FOX News Beats CNN in Ratings; First Time During Breaking Event,”
www.drudgereport.com
, June 27, 2000.

92
Paula Bernstein, “CNN Ratings Slip; FOX News Up 22% in 3Q!” Reuters, October 3, 2000.

93
Tom Bierbaum, “FOX News Trounces the Cable Competition on Inauguration Saturday,” January 23, 2001,
www.inside.com
.

94
“Study: Viewers Disgusted with Local TV News,”
www.DrudgeReport.com
, April 20, 2000, citing a forthcoming
Los Angeles Daily News
article.

95
Bernard Goldberg,
A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media
(Washington, DC: Regnery, 2009), 12.

96
Ibid., 66.

97
Ron Robinson, Young America’s Foundation, 2009, copy in author’s possession.

98
Robinson, comments in Speech at Young America’s Foundation, 2009.

99
Goldberg,
A Slobbering Love Affair
, 7.

100
Ibid., 30.

101
Ibid., 140.

102
Ibid., 30.

103
“Juan Williams Decries ‘High Tide’ of Media ‘Kowtowing’ to Obama,”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/06/20/juan-williams-decries-high-tide-media-kowtowing-obama
; Goldberg,
A Slobbering Love Affair
, 153.

104
“Love or Lust, Obama and the Fawning Press Need to Get a Room,”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bronstein/detail?blogid=47&entry_id=41380
.

105
“Obama’s First 100 Days: How the President Fared in the Press vs. Clinton and Bush,” Pew Research Center, April 28, 2009,
http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/obamas_first_100_days
.

106
Robert J. Samuelson, “The Obama Infatuation,”
Washington Post
, June 1, 2009.

107
“Media Boost Obama, Bash His Policies,” Center for Media and Public Affairs, April 27, 2009,
http://www.cmpa.com/media_room_4_27_09.htm
.

108
Goldberg,
A Slobbering Love Affair
, 5.

109
Ibid., 9.

110
Ibid., 152.

111
“The Radical Roots of Barack Obama,”
Rolling Stone
, February 22, 2007.

112
Goldberg,
A Slobbering Love Affair
, 55.

1
Mark R. Levin,
Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America
(Washington, DC: Regnery, 2005); Andrew Napolitano,
Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws
(Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2006), and his
The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land
(Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2007); and Stephen P. Powers and Stanley Rothman,
The Least Dangerous Branch?: Consequences of Judicial Activism
(Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2002).

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