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Originally posted by Savvy27@Oct 19 2004, 03:47 PM
I recommend Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken, regardless of your left-right position its a good book to read to understand how the media is used.
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Ouch! I'm not sure I would recommend somethng like that. It might send the poor kid into shock! Franken is a little too left-wing for my liking. He's the ying to An Coulter's yang IMO. They are both a little on the fringe. Mind you, the guy did try and defend Sean Hannity so it might be worth while for him to read a well written and researched book like that. Personally I would start out with Blinded by the Right, by David Brock. Extremely insightful and good primer. After reading that go on to The Republican Noise Machine. The next step would to be to read one of Brock's own books when he wrote for the neo-con movement, like The Real Anita Hill, and see how he himself used the techniques he refers to in Blinded and Noise. Eye opening? Extremely.