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To: JohnM who wrote (37)4/30/2003 12:39:25 PM
From: Bill  Read Replies (1) of 793939
 
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Fact Checking Stops On Page One, April 24, 2003
Reviewer: lesjl (see more about me) from Alexandria, VA USA
It says:

"Dwight David Eisenhower received one of the biggest ovations of his life when, at the 1952 Republican convention, he derided the 'sensation-seeking columnists and commentators' who sought to undermine the Republican Party's efforts to improve the nation."

As K.E. Grubbs Jr. pointed out for The American Spectator, this event occurred at the 1964 GOP convention, when Barry Goldwater was the nominee. There was a world of difference between 1952 and 1964.

Not only that, but Alterman doesn't know that Eisenhower's complaint was justified. In May 1964 Walter Cronkike attempted to get Eisenhower to denounce Goldwater. Eisenhower refused. It's a reliable sign of bias when a TV news anchorman lobbies a retired president in order to change the outcome of a political campaign that he is covering.

Alterman would have benefited by doing his homework. One can only hope that he isn't representative of the news media as a whole. The publisher needs to get a fact-checker for the next edition.

Elsewhere in the book Alterman provides arguments refuting his own thesis.

This book is only good for connoisseurs of unintentional humor.
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