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Author Gwinn, Dylan, author.

Title Bias in the booth : an insider exposes how sports media distort the news / Dylan Gwinn.

Publication Info. Washington, DC : Regnery Publishing, a Salem Communications Company, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-239) and index.
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Contents INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Landing on Trayvon; CHAPTER TWO The Separation of Church and Sport; CHAPTER THREE Knaves on the Warpath; CHAPTER FOUR Making a Hero of Michael Sam; CHAPTER FIVE Trashing Tebow; CHAPTER SIX Concussed and Confused; CHAPTER SEVEN Blacklisting Limbaugh; CHAPTER EIGHT Bull in Durham; CHAPTER NINE The New Racism; AFTERWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; INDEX.
Summary Most of us see sports as a welcome--even blessed--relief from the challenges and frustrations of everyday life. We want to sit back, open a beer, and enjoy the game. But many of those who bring us the game have a different agenda--they use their broadcasting platform to harangue us with their own politically correct preoccupations. If a seventh-round NFL draft pick who can't make the team or an over-the-hill basketball player declares that he's gay, he gets wall-to-wall media coverage and is hailed as a hero. If a stripper accuses college lacrosse players of rape, liberal sports reporters lead the.
Subject Journalism -- Objectivity -- United States.
Sports journalism -- United States.
Mass media and sports -- United States.
Radio broadcasting of sports -- Technique.
Radio broadcasting of sports.
Television broadcasting of sports.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
Journalism -- Objectivity. (OCoLC)fst00984072
Mass media and sports. (OCoLC)fst01011368
Sports journalism. (OCoLC)fst01130698
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Other Form: Print version: Gwinn, Dylan. Bias in the Booth : An Insider Exposes How the Sports Media Distort the News. New York : Regnery Publishing, ©2015 9781621573319
ISBN 9781621573883 (electronic bk.)
1621573885 (electronic bk.)
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