Think book reviews evenhanded? Big mistake

Yes, the bias of majors like the New York Times and networks extends to more favorable treatment for clearly liberal books:

"Unmentionable: Best-Selling Conservative Books and the Networks that Ignore Them Research reveals a glaring imbalance in network coverage of liberal best-sellers and comparable conservative titles." By Matt Philbin and Zoe Ortiz Culture and Media Institute:

"During the first six months of 2009, 25 books that can be described as “liberal” or “conservative” appeared on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best-Seller List. More of those books (14) were liberal, but conservative authors enjoyed a combined total of 95 weeks on the List. Liberals had 80. At this writing Michelle Malkin’s “Culture of Corruption” had been on the list for four weeks, and was currently at No.1.

"But no matter how commercially successful conservative books and authors have been, they were slighted by the three broadcast networks. The most glaring evidence of bias against conservative books was the networks’ complete neglect of the single most successful book on the list, radio host Mark Levin’s “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto.” Levin’s book spent 12 weeks at No.1, and as of this writing had yet to fall out of the top 10.

"The Culture and Media Institute analyzed how ABC, CBS and NBC covered those 25 hardcover nonfiction best-sellers, and found that the networks gave liberal books and authors dramatically more (and more favorable) coverage than their conservative counterparts. Of the 11 conservative authors on the list, just four received any coverage on the networks.

Read the whole article: http://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/articles/2009/20090908115345.aspx