Fox News host Mark 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. 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 idea of "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

"Following the footsteps of thinkers like Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederic Bastiat, eight-time New York Times bestselling author Mark R. Levin examines the role of power in our lives, society, and government--the philosophical and the practical. Levin takes the reader on a journey from the earliest civilizations to the modern republics of the West, where power has been used to liberate and oppress. To reward and to exploit. To build and to destroy"--