….or….Liberalism in action!
1.Actually, it is not censorship in the usual understanding of the term, but the control of the book industry by Democrats/Liberals requires an entirely new understanding of the terms ‘capitalism,’ and ‘ideology.’
Control of the dissemination of information in society is akin to control of the water in a desert community: you get what the one in control wants you to have. Government schooling is a perfect example: indoctrination over education.
The good news is that conservatives…readers- unlike Liberals-…have forced an industry-wide retreat in the book publishing industry.
2. Two decades back, when Liberal strangle-hold made the publication of conservative tomes a no-no, Coulter made the situation clear: profit was less a concern than advancing the ideology. The publishing companies simply rewarded would-be authors, for being Liberal
“Vast agglomerations of money are deployed to publish and promote liberal authors. National magazines and newspapers give hallucinatory reviews of books by their fellow liberals and snub books by conservatives.
Ludicrous uncompensated advances are made to support liberal authors, and liberal jeremiads make it to print without the most cursory fact-checking.
Gigantic book advances go to all sorts of authors—liberal historians, liberal feminists, liberal celebrities, liberal Clinton aides, liberal fighter pilots, liberal comedians. But you can be sure that enormous advances that turn out to be enormous mistakes will never be lavished on any of those “surprise best-sellers” [by conservatives]. Book advances are pure wealth transfers to liberal gabbers.
3. Feminist Naomi Wolf is regularly given mammoth advances, averaging half a million dollars apiece, for such intriguing themes as how Naomi lost her virginity. Despite colossal media interest more appropriate to the Second Coming, the actual books sell relatively poorly. In its characteristic understatement, the New York Times called Wolf’s first book, The Beauty Myth, about how women are victimized by the cosmetics industry (men)—I quote—”one of the most important books of the 20th century.”
It was given an adulatory write-up in a coveted New York Times book review. It was listed among the Times’s recommended “Summer Reading 1991: Books for Vacation Reading.” It was among the honored “Notable Books of the Year 1991.”
4. …, the endless press attention bumped Wolf’s book to the lower end of the best-seller list for three weeks—coming in at numbers 16,13, and 13. Also on the New York Times best-seller list at about the same time were Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education—which spent fifteen weeks on the list —and P. J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores—which spent thirty-eight weeks on the list.
5. … D’Souza’s book spent five times as long on the best-seller list (and at much higher numbers) than Wolf’s book. For his next book D’Souza got an advance of $150,000. For Wolf’s next book, Random House paid her an advance of $600,000. “ Coulter, “Slander.”
Capitalism, it appears, plays no role when it comes to indoctrination in the Liberal worldview.
One can only look askance at an industry that does not mark the bottom line as at least as important as the ideology of those it chooses to advance.
It requires a new and unusual definition of capitalism, and explains the direction society has taken.
1.Actually, it is not censorship in the usual understanding of the term, but the control of the book industry by Democrats/Liberals requires an entirely new understanding of the terms ‘capitalism,’ and ‘ideology.’
Control of the dissemination of information in society is akin to control of the water in a desert community: you get what the one in control wants you to have. Government schooling is a perfect example: indoctrination over education.
The good news is that conservatives…readers- unlike Liberals-…have forced an industry-wide retreat in the book publishing industry.
2. Two decades back, when Liberal strangle-hold made the publication of conservative tomes a no-no, Coulter made the situation clear: profit was less a concern than advancing the ideology. The publishing companies simply rewarded would-be authors, for being Liberal
“Vast agglomerations of money are deployed to publish and promote liberal authors. National magazines and newspapers give hallucinatory reviews of books by their fellow liberals and snub books by conservatives.
Ludicrous uncompensated advances are made to support liberal authors, and liberal jeremiads make it to print without the most cursory fact-checking.
Gigantic book advances go to all sorts of authors—liberal historians, liberal feminists, liberal celebrities, liberal Clinton aides, liberal fighter pilots, liberal comedians. But you can be sure that enormous advances that turn out to be enormous mistakes will never be lavished on any of those “surprise best-sellers” [by conservatives]. Book advances are pure wealth transfers to liberal gabbers.
3. Feminist Naomi Wolf is regularly given mammoth advances, averaging half a million dollars apiece, for such intriguing themes as how Naomi lost her virginity. Despite colossal media interest more appropriate to the Second Coming, the actual books sell relatively poorly. In its characteristic understatement, the New York Times called Wolf’s first book, The Beauty Myth, about how women are victimized by the cosmetics industry (men)—I quote—”one of the most important books of the 20th century.”
It was given an adulatory write-up in a coveted New York Times book review. It was listed among the Times’s recommended “Summer Reading 1991: Books for Vacation Reading.” It was among the honored “Notable Books of the Year 1991.”
4. …, the endless press attention bumped Wolf’s book to the lower end of the best-seller list for three weeks—coming in at numbers 16,13, and 13. Also on the New York Times best-seller list at about the same time were Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education—which spent fifteen weeks on the list —and P. J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores—which spent thirty-eight weeks on the list.
5. … D’Souza’s book spent five times as long on the best-seller list (and at much higher numbers) than Wolf’s book. For his next book D’Souza got an advance of $150,000. For Wolf’s next book, Random House paid her an advance of $600,000. “ Coulter, “Slander.”
Capitalism, it appears, plays no role when it comes to indoctrination in the Liberal worldview.
One can only look askance at an industry that does not mark the bottom line as at least as important as the ideology of those it chooses to advance.
It requires a new and unusual definition of capitalism, and explains the direction society has taken.
