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020			_a9781476773094 _cRM 139.90 _qhardback
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082	0	4	_223 _a070.44932
090	0	0	_a070.44932 _bLEV _dG
100	1		_aLevin, Mark R. _d1957- _eauthor. _q(Mark Reed),
245	1	0	_aUNFREEDOM OF THIS PRESS / _cMARK R.LEVIN
250			_aFirst Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bThreshold Editions, _c2019
264		4	_c©2019
300			_a258 pages : _c22 cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 231-258).
505			_aNews as political and ideological activism -- The early patriot press -- The modern democratic party-press -- The real threat to press freedom -- News, propaganda, and pseudo-events -- The New York times betrays millions -- The truth about collusion, abuse of power, and character -- Epilogue: a standard less profession.
520			_aUnfreedom of the Press is not just another book about the press. Levin shows how those entrusted with news reporting today are destroying freedom of the press from within:"not government oppression or suppression," he writes, but self-censorship, group-think, bias by omission, and passing off opinion, propaganda, pseudo-events, and outright lies as news. With the depth of historical background for which his books are renowned, Levin takes the reader on a journey through the early American patriot press, which proudly promoted the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, followed by the early decades of the Republic during which newspapers around the young country were open and transparent about their fierce allegiance to one political party or the other. It was only at the start of the Progressive Era and the twentieth century that the supposed "objectivity of the press" first surfaced, leaving us where we are today: with a partisan party-press overwhelmingly aligned with a political ideology but hypocritically engaged in a massive untruth as to its real nature.
650		0	_aJournalism _xPolitical aspects _xHistory _y21st century. _zUnited States
650		0	_aFreedom of the press _y21st century. _zUnited States|y
650		0	_aPress and politics _xHistory _y21st century. _zUnited States
650		0	_aJournalism _xObjectivity _zUnited States.
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