![]() ![]() The result is news organizations that favor ''management over labor. Only editors who share their outlook get promoted reporters, eager to please editors, censor themselves. Parenti says, is to ''recreate a view of reality supportive of existing social and economic class power.'' Major newspapers and networks accomplish this by advancing the class interests of their corporate owners, who dictate the politics of the press. Parenti is so simplistic and doctrinaire in accounting for this bias that he makes his book easy to dismiss. ![]() By documenting patterns of conservative bias in a dozen major news stories in the printed and broadcast press, ''Inventing Reality'' provides a valuable rebuttal to the drumbeat of criticism of the news media from the right. Taking Liebling's maxim as his point of departure, Michael Parenti, the author of ''Democracy for the Few,'' has written a forceful though flawed critique of the American news media. Liebling wrote, belongs to the man who owns one. INVENTING REALITY The Politics of the Mass Media. ![]()
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