*[Enwl-eng] Book Club: Cable News Confidential with Jeff Cohen

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                        "With this deliciously funny exposé, Jeff Cohen can 
probably kiss his television career goodbye. The rest of us meanwhile can 
celebrate his book and embrace him as one of America's sharpest and bravest 
pundits -- in any medium." —Barbara Ehrenreich


                        "Jeff Cohen has given us a lively, funny, serious, 
and ultimately devastating look at the corporate media, which he had a 
unique opportunity to observe from the inside. When future historians search 
for a description of the major media of our time, they will have his book as 
a primary source." —Howard Zinn

                        Did you miss Jeff Cohen's very well received session 
at our #NoWar2022 conference? Or did you see it? Either way, you'll want to 
jump at this chance to discuss with him online in four small-group sessions 
over four weeks, his book on being a cable news insider, a book that 
guaranteed he'd be a cable news outsider.

                        In August 2022, World BEYOND War will be holding a 
weekly discussion each of four weeks of Cable News Confidential with the 
author Jeff Cohen as part of a small group WBW book club limited to a group 
of 18 participants. He will send each participant a signed paperback. We'll 
let you know which parts of the book will be discussed each week along with 
the Zoom details to access the discussions.

                        When: For one hour on four Thursdays, August 4, 11, 
18, 25, 2022. The time is 23:00 UTC (similar to GMT), 1 pm in Honolulu, 4 pm 
in Los Angeles, 6 pm in Mexico City, 7 pm in New York, midnight in London, 
and Friday at 8 am in Tokyo, 9 am in Sydney, and 11 am in Auckland.

                        REGISTER HERE.




                        About the Author:

                        Jeff Cohen is Co-Founder and Policy Director at 
RootsAction.org. He is a media critic, columnist, documentary filmmaker, and 
retired journalism professor who founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986. 
For years, he was a regular pundit on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC discussing 
issues of media and politics.

                        About the Book:


                        Producer, pundit, and media critic Jeff Cohen offers 
a fast-paced romp through the three major cable news channels--Fox, CNN, and 
MSNBC--and delivers a serious message about their failure to cover the most 
urgent issues of the day.

                        Published in 2006, the book has a heavy emphasis on 
the pro-war biases of U.S. television news, with a special focus on the 
blatant political censorship that Cohen encountered at the hands of MSNBC 
executives (when he was senior producer of Phil Donahue's primetime show) 
during the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

                        "Television news is so bad, says Cohen, the founder 
of progressive media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting 
(FAIR), that 'Walter Cronkite would have big trouble getting a job today in 
TV news.' Thus, the wry media critic kicks off this excellent, high-energy 
look back at his trials and tribulations at CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. Though 
opinionated and incisive, Cohen's memoir is not the confession of a tortured 
progressive; Cohen freely admits to being a 'telebimbo' and a 'well-paid 
party to the feeding frenzy.' In 1987, Cohen began a stint as a guest on 
CNN's Crossfire, representing FAIR and progressive concerns; before he knows 
it, he's an enthusiastic member of the media 'kakistocracy,' the 'rule of 
the worst.' Doing battle with conservative gadflies Pat Buchanan, Robert 
Novak and others proves exhilarating, but a disturbing trend of 
'genuflecting to the political right' leads CNN executives to replace 
Crossfire co-host Michael Kinsley with two Democratic centrists. 
Surprisingly, Cohen finds punditry nirvana as a panelist on Fox News 
Channel's News Watch, 'the smartest and most balanced show on Fox and 
perhaps anywhere in cable news.' At the behest of Phil Donahue, Cohen moves 
to MSNBC, where the handwriting is literally on the wall: at network 
headquarters, posters celebrate news coverage 'highlights' like the death of 
Princess Diana and the Columbine shootings. Though he chides himself and his 
colleagues repeatedly for ignoring real news in favor of sensationalism 
('Nuclear tensions rise; we talk sex on Fox'), Cohen's willingness to mire 
himself in the swamp of infotainment amply mirrors the situation of viewers 
drawn into the cable news runaround, doomed to get their news from 'three 
dogs chasing each other's tails to the right.'" —Publishers Weekly


                        Reserve Your Spot Now and Get Your Book With Plenty 
of Time to Read it!



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