AltWeeklies Wire
Busted: America's Right-wing Heroes Mything In Action
Greenwald explores how GOP mythmakers and a compliant, sometimes worshipful media combine to inflate all-too-human right-wing leaders into heroic cultural icons, following the model of pill-popping, draft-dodging adulterer John Wayne, while Democrats are demonized as weak and hapless losers, and substantive issues disappear from view.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
04-04-2008 |
Nonfiction
Worst President Ever: Here's Why
Greenwald's thesis, simply put, is that Bush's simplistic good vs. evil dualism is fundamentally at odds with America's political traditions.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
07-12-2007 |
Nonfiction
Don't Think of an Elephant — A Donkey Kicks Back
Conservatives have spent the last 40 years developing and promoting their own set of issue frames, frames that have become so powerful through endless repetition that they make it extremely difficult to effectively disagree, author Lakoff argues. Liberals end up saying, “Don’t think of an elephant!” because they haven’t devoted similar resources to developing their own set of frames.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
09-10-2004 |
Nonfiction
