| What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News | |
| Author: | Eric Alterman |
| Subject: | Media bias |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Pub Date: | 2003 |
| Pages: | 322 |
| Isbn: | 978-0-465-00177-4 |
What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News is a book by columnist Eric Alterman that challenges the widespread conservative belief in a liberal media bias. Alterman argues that the media, as a whole, is not biased liberally, but conservatively.
The Los Angeles Times called the book, "A well-documented, even-tempered and witty answer, I might say antidote, to such toxic recent bestsellers as Bernard Goldberg's 'Bias.'"
Ted Widmer of the New York Times Book Review said "'What Liberal Media' is bold, counterintuitive and cathartic".[1]
The New Yorker said of the book, "A polemic is nothing without passion, and Alterman's argumentative vigor is engaging [and]... the meticulous care with which his arguments are sourced and footnoted is in commendable contrast to the efforts of some of his more fire-breathing opponents."[2]
See also: Media bias in the United States.