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About The Author:
Bob Kohn is an attorney and seasoned executive with experience in both the entertainment and high-tech industries. He is currently the vice chairman of the board of Borland Software Corp. and chairman of Laugh.com, a comedy record label. A former associate attorney at a prominent Beverly Hills entertainment law firm, Kohn served as associate editor of the Entertainment Law Reporter. Kohn also co-authored with his father the legal treatise, Kohn on Music Licensing, hailed by USA Today as the "bible of legal issues in the music world."
Anonymous
Posted January 20, 2005
Although it's been plain to discerning readers, our strictly anecdotal comments are finally backed up by Kohn's note-keeping with which he can cite chapter and verse showing how the NYT uses its news columns to promote its political agendas. Kohn also demonstrates for the unwary the various methods by which a paper can (and the Times does) turn purported objectivity into politics.
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Posted January 6, 2005
There are still a lot of people in the world who think that the New York Times is a great newspaper. This well-researched book exposes the reality of a paper that has become one huge, left-wing Op-Ed vessel.
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Posted August 14, 2004
Bob Kohn does an excellent job of exposing the ways in which the media, liberal in this case, can slant the news to achieve the agenda of the liberal loons. One of the most thoroughly documented books I have read and laid out in an extremely intuitive manner. Although it could be argued that much of what this book attacks went to the wayside with the resignation of Raines as the Times editor, there is still undoubtedly a liberal bias today at the Times. Reading the newspaper, or any other form of news, will never be the same after the insight and explanation of methods outlined in this book.
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Overview
A life-long reader of the New York Times proves how the once-vaunted newspaper has replaced its original noble mission to present straight news with a new subversive mission to manipulate attitudes and promote leftist agendas.For over a hundred years, the New York Times has purported to present straight news and hard facts. But, as Bob Kohn shows with absolute clarity, the founders' original vision has been hijacked, and today, instead of straight news, readers are given mere editorial under the pretense of objective journalism. Kohn shows point by point the methods by which the Times' mission has been subverted by the present management-routinely slanting the presentation of the facts in leads, headlines, and placement;