Posted on 05/26/2019 3:15:14 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas
You might think that an Amazon #1 bestseller -- as Mark Levins ninth book has become -- would merit serious reviews from serious people. Obviously, NPRs choice of Annalisa Quinn, a sometimes contributor to The New York Times, is immediately suspect. Conflict of interest much?
As one might have guessed from minute zero, Quinns review of Unfreedom of the Press is not about Levins book, but undermining its premise through insult, not argument.
Beginning with ad hominem attacks and ending with emotional diatribes, Quinns review of an academically documented and nonfiction bestseller is an outrage, but -- as Levin has carefully outlined -- easy to predict..
The first two paragraphs of Quinns review do not, of course, touch upon the book itself.
They are instead meritless and poisonous attacks on the author. Excoriating the writer before even touching upon the content is the mark of an unserious reviewer. Further, Quinns characterization of Levin -- in the very first sentence of the review -- as fringe betray her inability to objectively review any book.
Consider: does a fringe character:
Serve eight years in the Reagan administration, including as Attorney General Ed Meeses Chief of Staff? Mount the first great defense of the inner-city education system via charter schools, using the teachings of the great economist Milton Friedman? Lead a major legal foundation (Landmark Legal) intended to defend the Constitution as our Framers intended? Without any formal media training, build one of largest radio network audiences in radio history (more than 10 million weekly listeners)? Write nine (9) New York Times bestsellers in a row?
If thats fringe, what the hell is Annalisa Quinn (if that is her real name)?
But the key question I have for Quinn is: why did you somehow skip Chapter One of Levins book?
In Chapter One of Unfreedom of the Press, Levin describes two interesting phenomena:
The incestuous rotation of media personalities into and out of Democrat administrations (featuring George Stephanopoulos, Jake Tapper and Chuck Todd) The increasing centralization of journalists within the perimeters of Manhattan and DC
Quinn, of course, ignores these very real concerns to minimize Levins critique of her occasional employer The New York Times.
The Times, as many are aware and Levin details in stunning detail, attempted to conceal the Holocaust from the American people. A decade earlier, the publishers of the Times concealed the massacre of millions of Ukrainians by Stalin.
Quinn admits that its coverage of these events was inadequate, though they were in fact borderline criminally negligent. Curiously, Quinns description of this outrage echoes the words of the Times in its press release responding to Levins charges.
If there were the equivalent of a Hippocratic Oath for journalism, it would certainly advocate zealously reporting the truth when it could save millions of lives.
But, as Levins title for Chapter Six confirms, countless innocents were instead betrayed by the Times owners to avoid being seen as a Jewish newspaper.
As a Times contributor, Quinn should never have been permitted to review a book that reveals the mostly forgotten legacy of the newspaper of record.
But, with that said, she could have operated with a modicum of intellectual honesty and offered a balanced assessment of Levins arguments. But she couldnt and didnt. Which is why she ignored Chapter One.
Annalisa Quinn should never be permitted to write a taxpayer-funded book review again. You and I are paying for her verbal excrement.
That basically sums this all up.
Can this LIB lunatic make a good sammich.
...we now see beyond any question that big media in this country is no better than Pravda in the former Soviet Union.
Absolutely true. Thats why our FBSI (Federal Bureau of Social Information = Google+Facebook+Twitter+...) is right-censoring so hard. Throttling the internet for the masses is also a major, and urgent, goal of proggies.
THIS is what our forefathers died for in wars? THIS is why their blood spilled?
It is past time for public hangings in DC!
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