Books, Arts & Manners: Out of Hand

Beyond Malice: The Media’s Years of Reckoning, by Richard M. Clurman (Transaction, 306 pp„ $24.95)

Conservative journalists write angry, frustrated books about the systematic liberal bias of the news media. Liberal journalists write slick, self-satisfied books in which they seek to demonstrate, after much genteel handwringing about the venial sins of their well-meaning colleagues, that the news media are basically pretty wonderful.

About the Author

Terry Teachout

Terry Teachout is the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. Satchmo at the Waldorf, his 2011 play about Louis Armstrong, has been produced off Broadway and throughout America.

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Beyond Malice: The Media’s Years of Reckoning, by Richard M. Clurman (Transaction, 306 pp„ $24.95)

Conservative journalists write angry, frustrated books about the systematic liberal bias of the news media. Liberal journalists write slick, self-satisfied books in which they seek to demonstrate, after much genteel handwringing about the venial sins of their well-meaning colleagues, that the news media are basically pretty wonderful.

About the Author

Terry Teachout

Terry Teachout is the drama critic of the Wall Street Journal and the critic-at-large of Commentary. Satchmo at the Waldorf, his 2011 play about Louis Armstrong, has been produced off Broadway and throughout America.