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Ben Shapiro's new book, "Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story Of How The Left Took Over Your TV" is going viral all over the world, thanks to yesterday's article in The Independent. Today, coverage extends to the UK Daily Mail, the New Zealand Herald, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Ottawa Citizen, the Ireland Journal, Australia's Herald Sun, and yes, Newser, among others. Newser says, "The writer interviewed dozens of leading industry figures, some of whom 'admitted' to presenting a left-wing bias in programing, Shapiro writes, as they seek to 'shape America in their own leftist image.' Not very successfully, apparently."...

Conservative columnist and author Ben Shapiro accused television executives and writers of pushing a liberal agenda in several high profile American television entertainment shows. His book will show how the "most powerful medium of mass communication in human history became a vehicle for spreading the radical agenda of the left side of the political spectrum," according to the publishers HarperCollins. Shapiro interviewed dozens of leading industry figures, some of whom admitted to including a left wing bias in their shows. The results showed "unrepentant abuses of the Hollywood entertainment industry" and how movers and shakers in the television world tried...

The TV series Friends undermined family values; Sesame Street taught ethnic minorities about civil disobedience; Happy Days had a subtle anti-Vietnam subtext; and the 1980s cop show MacGyver tried to persuade pistol-packing Americans that guns are bad. That, at least, is the considered opinion of Ben Shapiro, an investigative author and right-wing columnist who will publish a detailed exposé tomorrow telling how Hollywood producers, writers and actors have been secretly using TV to promote what he calls a "radical" left-leaning political agenda. Shapiro's book, Primetime Propaganda runs to 416 pages and revolves around comments by 70-odd industry heavyweights who he...