Synopses & Reviews
Producer, pundit, and media critic Jeff Cohen offers a fast-paced romp through the three major cable news channels Fox, CNN, and MSNBC and delivers a serious message about their failure to cover the most urgent issues of the day. Propelled by hilarious anecdotes featuring celebrities, famous pundits and media personalities, Cable News Confidential highlights the foibles, hypocrisies, and absurdities he witnessed at news organizations run by entertainment conglomerates.
Synopsis
Producer, pundit, and media critic Jeff Cohen offers a fast-paced romp through the three major cable news channels--Fox, CNN, and MSNBC--and delivers a serious message about their failure to cover the most urgent issues of the day.
About the Author
Jeff Cohen is the founder of FAIR, the progressive media watch group based in New York. He devolved from media critic to media pundit, appearing regularly on national TVincluding as a co-host of
Crossfire on CNN, a weekly panelist on Fox News and a daily commentator on MSNBC. He was senior producer of MSNBC's
Donahue until the show was terminated on the eve of the Iraq war. He is the co-author of a number of books, including
Wizards of Media Oz and
The Way Things Arent: Rush Limbaughs Reign of Error.
Cohen's columns have run in many publications, including the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Atlanta Constitution, Miami Herald, Brill's Content and the Nation. Prior to FAIR, he worked in Los Angeles as an ACLU lawyer. In 2003, he was communications director of the Kucinich for President campaign. He writes and lectures widely about media and politics, reachable through jeffcohen.org. He lives in upstate New York, where he helps raise two smart, beautiful daughters.