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| fun factory, cd, hanford, camera, 2006, illusions, george, mass communication media and politics, personal memoirs, nuclear waste, american duct tape council, authors, massage oil, adult toys, self help, slim, | All rights reserved. From Booklist Journalist Germond offers scathing criticism of politicians, the press, and the public, on trinity test the basis of 40 years of reporting on politics for newspaper, television, and radio. According to Germond, Americans have little interest in government and politics and place few serious expectations on political trinity test candidates. Furthermore, the press feeds on the public's indifference, or cynicism, playing into the misrepresentations of candidates and ignoring more crucial issues, such as the racism that continues to plague American politics. And political trinity test candidates shape their messages on the basis of polls, not convictions. Germond recounts the political campaigns he has covered, criticizing the mindlessness of campaigns and the empty rituals of elaborately staged conventions and debates that focus more on gaffes than policy stands. Are most reporters liberals? Probably, says Germond, and so what? He ridicules the notion that a reporter can't have a particular political slant and still deliver fair coverage. |
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| Most of Germond's observations are conventional: diatribes against slanted polling techniques, campaign coverage driven by sound bites, media feeding frenzies in response to minor gaffes by politicians, and the overweening power of money to influence elections. But Germond buttresses his arguments with a rich trove of anecdotes, the best of which are drawn from his reporting experiences, cd as when vice-presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen's wife called Germond to complain that a pointed question as to whether Bentsen owned a foreign car "had cost me my Mercedes." Germond is especially caustic about cd the issue cd of race, on which he faults both parties for evasion and dishonesty. He devotes a few pages to possible remedies, such as rescheduling the presidential primary races to provide more time for reflection by the voters, but frankly concludes that none of his ideas is likely to be enacted. The book thus ends up less a cri de coeur than an agitated shrug. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. |
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