To Set The Record Straight: How the Old Media Goliath was killed (book review)

Matthew Bracken | Sep 19, 2009 | Matthew Bracken

[Interesting Times]

A self-aggrandizing sort of ping.

[Travis McGee]

My thought is that, having enjoyed a monopoly for so long (similar to IBM until the 80’s) they became fat and convinced of their wonderfulness. Insofar as they never had to defend a position, they forgot how.

I think that is exactly correct.

[Travis McGee]

“When in doubt, empty the magazine.”

Actually, I had a longer subtitle that went on another few words, but I trimmed it to fit.

[Travis McGee]

Your book is so much more than a history of the 2004 campaign. It really digs into the entire history of media bias from Vietnam until now. Kerry and the Swiftvets just provided a perfect microcosm example for complete analysis.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Nateman]

Rather than look for an image I just clicked on a Townhall link for Hannah Giles (It was at the top)

[Interesting Times]

How in the world Obama was not snared I will never understand - he is many degrees worse than Kerry politically, apparently born outside of the country, a collaborator of violent anti-Americans, with a murky astro-turfed past. The forces controlling the Hopey Changey doofus are implimenting the policies of preemptive surrender and disarmament abroad, while communizing our society and economy and destroying our freedoms at home. This will not stand. American will revolt so long as they know the truth.

Obama's handlers took a lesson from what we did to Kerry.

The solution was to make their candidate's radical past largely vanish, while mouthing platitudes and playing none-too-subtly on the racial guilt of the white majority. It was obvious to anyone who studied the matter that Obama was a Marxist, but few people actually do that. By focusing Obama's campaign on meaningless slogans of "hope" and "change," his handlers avoided setting up a confrontation on the topic, in contrast with Kerry, who was stuck with his Vietnam record as Topic A.

Now the public sees the Administration and Congress nationalizing everything in sight: the auto industry, banking, mortgages, health care, etc., etc., and a decent backlash is under way. However, the radicals who now control the government have plotted for decades to acquire power, and they aren't likely to relinquish it at all easily.

[Travis McGee]

Yep, it’s a terrific book. It really nails the mainstream media, going all the way back to Vietnam.

[AmericanVictory]

The astonishing thing is that although every thing that they said was provable and true, the urinalists of the MSM, who never were able to disprove a single word of it, to this day disdainfully and scornfully use the the label “swiftboating” to stand for lies. Talk about wee weeing on the truth you claim to stand for!

[Travis McGee]

The MSM still thinks that their memory hole is set on 1984.
And it might work on the dolts and the libtards, but they don’t control the news flow anymore. That’s why Goliath is dead. Goliath only lived when it had a news monopoly.

[Interesting Times]

Your book is so much more than a history of the 2004 campaign. It really digs into the entire history of media bias from Vietnam until now. Kerry and the Swiftvets just provided a perfect microcosm example for complete analysis.

That was what I meant by "perceptive."

The 2004 Kerry Wars opened the eyes of many to the astonishing dishonesty and manipulation practiced by the old media opinion formers - all those charming, photogenic people who insist on being known by their first names. Tim and I tried to pull the whole story together, backed by as much hard evidence and first-person testimony as possible.

Thanks again, and I'm looking forward to reading your own new book.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Chode]

i understand that, i mean there should be at least a FEW pix of her of larger than thumbnails, but try and find them!

this is the return for images of "Hannah Giles" Results 1 - 20 of about 14,600 (0.05 seconds)

Elias and Hannah Giles 350 x 284 - 81k - jpg middlebury.edu	Denbigh School: Milton Keynes: 800 x 439 - 279k denbigh.net	Explicit Hannah Giles Bikini 400 x 415 - 26k - jpg threebeerslater.blogspot.com	Home Page 550 x 1142 - 119k - gif bluegrasscommunityhospital...
Hannah Giles, Jason Mattera, 400 x 300 - 19k - jpg rsmccain.blogspot.com	a feel on Hannah Giles, 639 x 312 - 75k - jpg mofopolitics.com	a feel on Hannah Giles, 639 x 312 - 75k - jpg mofopolitics.com	Georgina Hannah Giles (West 200 x 236 - 14k en-gb.facebook.com
Hannah Giles 200 x 402 - 19k facebook.com	Soubrette - Hannah Giles 922 x 691 - 147k - jpg ajr.freeola.com	Hannah Giles lived with her 245 x 199 - 35k - jpg jimsafe.com	on Hannah Giles American 500 x 469 - 221k - jpg movies-music-games.com
her friend Hannah Giles, 364 x 431 - 39k - jpg activitypit.ning.com	Hannah Giles 320 x 240 - 4k - jpg dipity.com	A group dedicated to Hannah 800 x 600 - 28k - jpg activitypit.ning.com	that Hannah Giles and 718 x 538 - 59k - jpg primordialslack.blogspot.com
hannah giles facebook 771 x 588 - 162k - jpg kathkeayr.blogspot.com	O'Keefe and Hannah Giles's 499 x 472 - 37k - jpg cafeconservative.com	Hannah Giles (Brighton and 200 x 150 - 9k facebook.com	Hannah Giles 320 x 240 - 4k - jpg dipity.com and this is what you get...

[blackie]

Good stuff, thanks, good job!!

[Nateman]

The trick is to add extra tags. In this case I used "columnist".

[The Shrew]

Swett created the SwiftVets.com and WinterSolder.com websites during the 2004 campaign, and was central to the Swiftboat veterans' success.

Matt, your review was outstanding and this sentence summarizes not only the book but the reality of the Swiftboat veterans success.

Nice work. Thanks for the effort. (Hey, Where's my copy of 'Traitors'?)

TS

[Chode]

but why would i do that when i only want a picture of her???

[Fawnn]

Isn’t Dan Rather the reporter who first got national attention when he falsely reported that Dallas school children cheered when they learned of Kennedy’s assassination?

[airborne]

Much like “Video killed the radio star” -

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtHEmVjVw8 -

- “Internet killed the media star”!

[stephenjohnbanker]

I spent 10 years (age 12-22) in the Boston suburb of Newton. On the same day that I graduated from Boston College, I was on the red eye to Los Angeles. In 1976, California was still a Republican state. Thirty years later, I left L.A. for the same reasons. Nowhere to hide ;-)