Unfreedom of the Press Book Summary

In 'Unfreedom of the Press,' Mark R. Levin delivers a provocative critique of the mainstream media, arguing that it has become a vehicle for propaganda rather than honest journalism. He explores the historical and contemporary forces that have influenced reporting, revealing how biases shape public perception. Levin outlines the consequences of this media manipulation on democracy and free speech, urging readers to recognize the threats to their freedoms. With compelling examples and a passionate narrative, the book challenges the status quo and demands accountability. Are you prepared to confront the unsettling truths behind the news you consume?

By Mark R. Levin

Published: 2019

"Freedom of the press is to the nation what oxygen is to life; without it, we suffocate in tyranny."

Book Review of Unfreedom of the Press

From six-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a groundbreaking and enlightening book that shows how the great tradition of the American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession that has squandered the faith and trust of the American public, not through actions of government officials, but through its own abandonment of reportorial integrity and objective journalism. Unfreedom of the Press is not just another book about the press. Levin shows how those entrusted with news reporting today are destroying freedom of the press from within: “not government oppression or suppression,” he writes, but self-censorship, group-think, bias by omission, and passing off opinion, propaganda, pseudo-events, and outright lies as news. With the depth of historical background for which his books are renowned, Levin takes the reader on a journey through the early American patriot press, which proudly promoted the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, followed by the early decades of the Republic during which newspapers around the young country were open and transparent about their fierce allegiance to one political party or the other. It was only at the start of the Progressive Era and the twentieth century that the supposed “objectivity of the press” first surfaced, leaving us where we are today: with a partisan party-press overwhelmingly aligned with a political ideology but hypocritically engaged in a massive untruth as to its real nature.

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Freedom of the press is to the nation what oxygen is to life; without it, we suffocate in tyranny.

Unfreedom of the Press

By Mark R. Levin