{"product_id":"2940170481637","title":"Unfreedom of the Press","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom five-time number one \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author, Fox News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a groundbreaking and enlightening audiobook that shows how the great tradition of the American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession that has squandered the faith and trust of the American public, not through actions of government officials but through its own abandonment of reportorial integrity and objective journalism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnfreedom of the Press\u003c\/i\u003e is not just another audiobook about the press. Levin shows how those entrusted with news reporting today are destroying freedom of the press from within: ¿not government oppression or suppression¿, he writes, but self-censorship, groupthink, bias by omission, and passing off opinion, propaganda, pseudo-events, and outright lies as news.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the depth of historical background for which his books are renowned, Levin takes the reader on a journey through the early American patriot press, which proudly promoted the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, followed by the early decades of the Republic during which newspapers around the young country were open and transparent about their fierce allegiance to one political party or the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was only at the start of the Progressive Era and the 20th century that the supposed ¿objectivity of the press¿ first surfaced, leaving us where we are today: with a partisan party-press overwhelmingly aligned with a political ideology but hypocritically engaged in a massive untruth as to its real nature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47102468194544,"sku":"2940170481637","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170481637_p0.jpg?v=1763710699","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170481637","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}