- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: New Press (May 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1565845773
- ISBN-13: 978-1565845770
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.6 x 2.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,445,048 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Her Medicare scare comes true in 2003
25 Nov 2003
Format:Hardcover
Let me apologize straight up, I have not read the book- but I have, just today (Nov.2003) on alternet.org, read her related - and excellent - essay on the new Bush Medicare "reform" legislation, and what it means to the future of Medicare. (Sidenote: It may mean the end of Medicare, beginning about a decade from now: The healthy are given incentives to get out of Medicare, the insurance corporations are given tax subsidies to compete against Medicare, and only the old and sick will be left in Medicare - which will have less money and so higher costs. To the charge that the law may end Medicare, Republican Senator Thompson responded, "I hope so." These facts are relevent to my review of this book.)
I write this review because passage of the law seems to fulfill predictions made in her book (as gathered from the other reviews here).
This prediction from her book of 2000 has come true: In order to "save" Medicare, the 2003 law may end it.
Another prediction: The AARP, targeted by the GOP, as warned by this author, did indeed support the new Medicare law. (Indeed, the guy who is CEO of the AARP since 2000 also wrote the intro to discredited former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's book on how to dismantle Medicare.)
My 5 stars review here is points for the author being correct, and also to counter any bias in the only two other reviews here, which are given unfair weight due to so few reviews. Also, the author's credentials are good: she is a contributor to Consumer Reports and Columbia Journalism Review. If the book is written as well as her essay which I read, then the author writes clearly and to the point. Not a rant or rave, just the facts. I like that, I can think for myself.
I write this review because passage of the law seems to fulfill predictions made in her book (as gathered from the other reviews here).
This prediction from her book of 2000 has come true: In order to "save" Medicare, the 2003 law may end it.
Another prediction: The AARP, targeted by the GOP, as warned by this author, did indeed support the new Medicare law. (Indeed, the guy who is CEO of the AARP since 2000 also wrote the intro to discredited former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's book on how to dismantle Medicare.)
My 5 stars review here is points for the author being correct, and also to counter any bias in the only two other reviews here, which are given unfair weight due to so few reviews. Also, the author's credentials are good: she is a contributor to Consumer Reports and Columbia Journalism Review. If the book is written as well as her essay which I read, then the author writes clearly and to the point. Not a rant or rave, just the facts. I like that, I can think for myself.
9 of 17 people found the following review helpful
The Forces That Shape the News
14 Jun 2000
Format:Hardcover
According to Lieberman, a Columbia Journalism Review contributing editor, the "forces" in her book's title are a cabal of conservative think tanks like the Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation. She maintains that by inundating news organizations with position papers, self-serving statistics, and talking heads, their operatives have insidiously shifted national debate rightward. Through four exhaustively documented case studies, she revisits the political right's plans to delegitimize both the American Association of Retired Persons and Head Start, "save" (read: cut) Medicare, and "modernize" (read: water down) the powers of the FDA. Scary and compelling, Lieberman's screed gives the lie to the notion of the "liberal media" even as it will be read by some as a product of that same mythic beast.
1 of 9 people found the following review helpful
One more opinion
9 April 2001
Format:Hardcover
How the media distorts and misconstrues information is truly phenomenal...but is it really some vast "right-wing" conspiracy as Lieberman suggests, or is it fear on both political sides? Each political side seems determined to make the other look unjust, bigoted, and dishonest (politicians come and go but politics never change). As long as people like Lieberman blame and shame one side we get nowhere--it has yet to work in the Middle East. The media, in many ways seems more on the side of anarchy and sensationalism. I'm sure this author is a sincere idealist who feels that if people could just think the way she did the world would be a better place...or at least a "safer" one. Most people I know stick to their opinions no matter what the media or books like this one say.
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