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Newsfail: Climate Change, Feminism, Gun Control, and Other Fun Stuff We Talk About Because Nobody Else Will Hardcover – October 14, 2014
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“Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny are a modern day social justice, non-violent, vegan, punk, anti-war, feminist Bonnie and Clyde. Their weapons are simple: the pen, the airwaves, and a searing sense of humor. Their targets are the rich, the powerful, corporate media barons and basically any major league assholes.” (Jeremy Scahill, Academy Award nominee and author of Blackwater and Dirty Wars)
“Feisty, literate, and uncompromising, the work of Kilstein and Kilkenny stresses the role of a free and independent press as a powerful guardian of democracy.” (Publishers Weekly)
“[Kilstein and Kilkenny] make a strong case that a greater range of voices needs to be part of the national media discussion, including theirs. . . . A call to action for those who don't like the news to make their own.” (Kirkus Reviews)
“Feisty, literate, and uncompromising, the work of Kilstein and Kilkenny stresses the role of a free and independent press as a powerful guardian of democracy.” (Publishers Weekly)
“[Kilstein and Kilkenny] make a strong case that a greater range of voices needs to be part of the national media discussion, including theirs. . . . A call to action for those who don't like the news to make their own.” (Kirkus Reviews)
About the Author
Jamie Kilstein is a stand-up comedian, who has been featured on The Conan O’Brien Show, Showtime, Up With Chris, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and NPR’s Weekend Edition. One time, Glenn Beck called him a doofus, which is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to him.
Allison Kilkenny has previously reported for The Nation and has appeared on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show and Up With Chris, and Democracy Now. One time, G. Gordon Liddy told Allison that her writing “makes him want to vomit,” which is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to her.
Allison Kilkenny has previously reported for The Nation and has appeared on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show and Up With Chris, and Democracy Now. One time, G. Gordon Liddy told Allison that her writing “makes him want to vomit,” which is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to her.
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The central theme in this unsubtle attack on most of the current issues in the USA is the newsmedia's consistent, willful and unwavering failure to report them fairly. Sometimes this means unfairly displaying the other side on an issue that really doesn't have another side, but the newsmedia find out-there extremists to represent "opposition". On other issues, the newsmedia are blinded by multimillion dollar sponsorship deals. And there's always the heavy hand of government trying to suppress the truth for the sake of stable government, "national security", and trickle-down jobs. Left (MSNBC??) or Right (Fox) or simply Lame (ABC, CBS, NBC), the result is the same - unhelpful at best, misleading most of the time. #Newsfail attempts to come to the rescue.
The book is a crossover collection of rants by the founder hosts of Citizen Radio, a leftish podcast that is garnering listeners worldwide, thanks to the internet. One is a reporter and one is a comedian. They lived together, starved together, traveled together, married, and work together. That alone merits recognition.
The rants are humorous, self-deprecating (If you ask the people around you if there is any vegan food available, they will collectively declare "Oh, JESUS CHRIST!"), offensive, entertaining, and largely on target, if only superficially. There is very little in the way of revelation or depth here. America is the Great Satan. Everything we do has an ulterior motive. Everything we do is for the wrong reason. Everything we do poisons the planet, physically, politically, socially, and/or culturally. In the wonderful phrase of Alexander Cockburn's Colossal Wreck, we are marinating in hypocrisy.Read more ›
The book is a crossover collection of rants by the founder hosts of Citizen Radio, a leftish podcast that is garnering listeners worldwide, thanks to the internet. One is a reporter and one is a comedian. They lived together, starved together, traveled together, married, and work together. That alone merits recognition.
The rants are humorous, self-deprecating (If you ask the people around you if there is any vegan food available, they will collectively declare "Oh, JESUS CHRIST!"), offensive, entertaining, and largely on target, if only superficially. There is very little in the way of revelation or depth here. America is the Great Satan. Everything we do has an ulterior motive. Everything we do is for the wrong reason. Everything we do poisons the planet, physically, politically, socially, and/or culturally. In the wonderful phrase of Alexander Cockburn's Colossal Wreck, we are marinating in hypocrisy.Read more ›
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