The Republican Noise Machine

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The Republican Noise Machine book cover

The Republican Noise Machine is a 2004 book written by David Brock which chronicles the author's opinion of how the American right wing was able to build their media infrastructure.

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Main article: David Brock

David Brock authored The Real Anita Hill in 1993, and became well liked by other Republicans. He then had a hand in many other political books, including examinations of the Clintons. He himself has disavowed attacks he calls 'smears'. His book Blinded By The Right: The Conscience Of An Ex-Conservative was a 2002 best-seller.

[edit] Summary

Brock details the development of the conservative media strategy since Barry Goldwater. This strategy, he claims, was predicated on corporate funding of think tanks, like the Heritage Foundation and three kindred institutions. Such think tanks can serve not only as tutors for industry lobbyists, but as propagandists. He believes that they used deceptive sorts of language-frames that, for example, posit "cherry-picked half-facts" suggesting for example that increased educational spending in fact decreases the efficacy of educators’ efforts. Conservative and Republican strategists, he claims, "concoct smears, distortions, and outright lies", and then disseminate the product as 'talking points' to right-wing radio and Fox News. These smears gain a faux credibility through endless repetition, and picked up by the mainstream press.