On Today: NYT Editor Feebly Tries to Explain Away Success of Conservative Books
During a Norah O'Donnell report, on Friday's Today, about how well books written by the likes of Sarah Palin, George W. Bush and Glenn Beck are selling, the New York Times' Jenny Schuessler rationalized the only reason conservative books are outpacing liberal ones is because “conservatives have some really strong media personalities” like Beck and Bill O'Reilly ” that have a platform that they can promote their books from.” There's just one flaw in that piece of logic, something O'Donnell failed to point out, liberals including her fellow NBC colleague Keith Olbermann, who has a nightly “platform” on MSNBC, routinely put out books that flop. At the time of publication of this article Olbermann's Pitchforks and Torches , just released in October, is currently ranked at 3,997 on Amazon.com. O'Donnell began her piece highlighting how both Bush and Palin's books are competing with each other on the New York Times Bestseller list as she hyped: “Call it Bush versus Palin, and the winner? President Bush is number one” and then later added that it wasn't just right leaning politicians that were burning up the book charts, but that conservative radio and TV talkers were holding their own as well, which led to a soundbite from Schuessler suggesting they were moving book sales simply because they were on the airwaves. read more
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On Today: NYT Editor Feebly Tries to Explain Away Success of Conservative Books
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on December 3, 2010. Filed under