The News Twisters

by Edith Efron

Book Overview

The News Twisters by Edith Efron 1971 Hardcover This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0840212062
• ISBN13: 9780840212061
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Nash
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Great, If Dated, Analysis of Media Bias

Contrary to the other "reviewer's" opinion, this is not just some partisan right-wing attack on the media. Edith Efron _was_ politically conservative to libertarian but, for anyone who cares to listen, the work speaks for itself. It is not merely a book of her opinions -- she recorded the network evening news programs during the presidential campaign and measured how much time was given to both candidates. The result was clear that the networks devoted _far_ more time to the Democratic candidate. But she didn't stop there -- she transcribed the recordings and _counted_words_, even analyzing the emotional content of the vocabulary used to describe both candidates. The result again was that the media characterized the Democrat more often positively and the Republican negatively. Was the book the genesis of claims that the media are biased? Perhaps. Was it justified? Absolutely!