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Posted by ClearSkies on November 9, 2006, at 8:50:29
"State of Denial" by Bob Woodward?
It was a startling thing to read while the elections were going on. For me it was like connect the dots. I found the television coverage to be overwhelming, imbalanced, and confusing. I have had enough already of Chris Matthews and Wolf Blitzer (I still can't believe that's his name, it sounds more suitable for a wrestler). Same with newspapers. To be objective you have to see and absorb it all. The latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine has been an interesting read as well.Has anyone else read the Woodward book? What did you think?
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Posted by Dinah on November 9, 2006, at 9:47:03
In reply to Has anyone read (please don't move to Books), posted by ClearSkies on November 9, 2006, at 8:50:29
I can't say that I've ever read a book on politics of my own volition. Except "Bad Bet on the Bayou", and I had to quit reading partway through because I felt too sick to continue.
I like to read historical books with historical politics, but not contemporary ones.
However, I think I'd be even more wary of books than I would of newspaper articles and magazines. Because in some ways they're more like the op/ed page than the news. It's hard to see how anyone, no matter how hard they try, can be completely objective and leave their own beliefs out of a book and how can that not skew the results?
I did read "A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal", because information from the inside of Iraq from the everyday people seemed hard to come by.
I guess I need to exempt local politics from that general rule. I generally get my local news from a few sources I trust. But I haven't got the information to know who to trust on the national level, so I just try to get a broad sampling.
Posted by Dinah on November 9, 2006, at 9:59:14
In reply to Re: Has anyone read (please don't move to Books) » ClearSkies, posted by Dinah on November 9, 2006, at 9:47:03
I think that maybe didn't come out the way I intended.
I don't see it as a virtue on my part that I can't stomach entire books on politics. :) I just can't sustain a taste for the topic long enough to read books about it.
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