http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/7613/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/times-editor-feebly-tries-explain-away-success-conservative-books-nbcs-today-show <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> During a Today show report about how well books written by the likes of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are selling, the Times&#039; Jenny Schuessler rationalized that the only reason conservative books sales are outpacing liberal ones is because &quot;conservatives have some really strong media personalities&quot; like Beck and Bill O&#039;Reilly &quot;that have a platform that they can promote their books from.&quot; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/geoffrey-dickens">Geoffrey Dickens</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>During a Norah O'Donnell report, on Friday's Today show, about how well books written by the likes of Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, and Glenn Beck are selling, the 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."<br /></p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/times-editor-feebly-tries-explain-away-success-conservative-books-nbcs-today-show" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch BillO'Reilly Books GlennBeck JennySchuessler liberalmediabias NewYorkTimes NewYorkTimesbias TimesWatch Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:07:00 +0000 admin 7965 at http://archive2.mrc.org http://archive2.mrc.org/bias-alerts/today-nyt-editor-feebly-tries-explain-away-success-conservative-books <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/geoffrey-dickens">Geoffrey Dickens</a> </div> </div> </div> <div style="float: right;"><img height="180" width="240" src="http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/uploads/2010-12-03-Schuessler.jpg" /></div><p>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."<br /></p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/bias-alerts/today-nyt-editor-feebly-tries-explain-away-success-conservative-books" target="_blank">read more</a></p> BiasAlerts News Analysis Division BiasAlert BillO'Reilly GeorgeW.Bush GlennBeck JennySchuessler JonStewart KeithOlbermann liberalmediabias NorahO'Donnell SarahPalin Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:31:00 +0000 37032 at http://archive2.mrc.org