Eric Boehlert: 2 books
Lapdogs
How the Press Lay Down for the Bush White House
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2006
Lapdogs is the first book to demonstrate that, for the entire George W. Bush presidency, the news media have utterly failed in their duty as watchdog for the public. In blistering prose, Eric Boehlert reveals how, time after time, the press chose a soft approach to covering the government, and as...
Bloggers on the Bus
How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Ever since radio entered the American private home, technology has shaped political campaign strategy. Radio brought candidates more intimately and vividly into citizens' lives than newspapers could. The televised presidential debate of 1960 -- in which a strapping John F. Kennedy embarrassed a clammy...