Spin Masters, David Freddoso
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Spin Masters
How the Media Ignored the Real News and Helped Reelect Barack Obama

Unabridged: 6 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/28/2013


Synopsis

The biggest story of the election was how the media ignored the biggest story of the election. Amid all the breathless coverage of a nonexistent war on women, there was little or no coverage of Obamas war on the economyhow, for instance, part-time work is replacing full-time work, how low-wage jobs are replacing high-wage ones, how for Americans between the ages of twenty-five and fifty-four there are fewer jobs today than there were when the recession officially ended in 2009, and fewer, in fact, than at any time since mid-1997. The downsizing of the American economy wasnt the only story the media missedor suppressedthere was also the unraveling of Obamas foreign policy and the deadly scandals at home (Fast and Furious) and abroad (the terrorist attack that killed the American ambassador at Benghazi). But instead of serious, substantive journalism, the media reported ad nauseam on trifles (Big Bird), Republican-baiting hysteria (how everything the Republicans said was allegedly racial code), and distortions of Romneys remarks (such as the 47 percent comment).The media dropped the ball in covering the 2012 election, says David Freddoso, editorial page editor oftheWashington Examiner, and in doing so, the media failed in their responsibility to keep politicians honest and the public well-informed. Freddoso, aNew York Timesbestselling author and former congressional reporter forNational Review, fills this volume not only with outrageous examples of media bias but also with dozens of real stories that genuinely inquisitive reporters should have relished but that the overwhelmingly liberal press didnt even bother to cover. Full of the news you didnt hear about in 2012, David FreddososSpin Masters: How the Media Ignored the Real News and Helped Reelect Barack Obamawill be the most provocative and accurate take of just how Barack Obama managed to get reelected amid the worst economic times since at least the 1970sand how the media helped him do it.

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