PRIMETIME PROPAGANDA

The inside story of how the most powerful medium of mass communication in human history has become a propaganda tool for the Left

By Ben Shapiro

"A must-buy and a must-read" -- Mark Levin

Buy Ben's new book, "Primetime Propaganda" To be released May 31, 2011

Primetime Propaganda is the story—told in their own words—of how television has been used over the past sixty years by Hollywood writers, producers, actors, and executives to promote their liberal ideals, to push the envelope on social and political issues, and to shape America in their own leftist image.

In this thoroughly researched and detailed history of the television industry, conservative columnist and author Ben Shapiro argues that left-leaning entertainment kingpins in Los Angeles and New York have leveraged—and continue to use—their positions and power to push liberal messages and promote the Democratic Party while actively discriminating against their opponents on the Right. According to Shapiro, television isn’t just about entertainment—it’s an attempt to convince Americans that the social, economic, and foreign policy shaped by leftism is morally righteous.

But don’t take his word for it. Shapiro interviewed more than one hundred of the industry’s biggest players, including Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H), Fred Silverman (former president of ABC Entertainment, NBC, and vice president of programming at CBS), Marta Kauffman (Friends), David Shore (House), and Mark Burnett (Survivor). Many of these insiders boast that not only is Hollywood biased against conservatives, but that many of the shows being broadcast have secret political messages. With this groundbreaking exposé, readers will never watch television the same way again.

“Ben Shapiro’s Primetime Propaganda will knock the Hollywood left on its heels. It turns out they’re spiking the popcorn with left-wing politics, which Shapiro establishes with interviews, anecdotes, and quotes from those in a position to know. Get deprogrammed: read Shapiro’s book—and wake up to what you’re watching.”

—Ann Coulter, author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault on America

“Ben Shapiro’s Primetime Propaganda is vitally important, devastatingly thorough, and shockingly revealing. By going into the belly of the Tinseltown beast, Shapiro has done Americans a true service, exposing the Hollywood machine for what it is: a pawn of the Democratic Party, a corrupt bureaucracy dedicated to preserving its monopoly, and an out-of-touch group of leftists willing to use their entertainment as vehicles for their radical liberalism. After reading Primetime Propaganda, you’ll never watch TV the same way again. It’s a must-buy and a must-read.”

—Mark Levin, author of Liberty and Tyranny

“Primetime Propaganda is brilliant, entertaining, and impeccably researched, proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Hollywood is indeed propagandizing on behalf of leftism and doing so with full intent. Ben Shapiro is a fabulous writer, and Primetime Propaganda is his most important book yet—perhaps the most incisive book ever written about the Tinseltown establishment.”

—David Limbaugh, author of Crimes Against Liberty

“For forty years, Hollywood has pretended that left-wing McCarthyism does not exist in the television industry. In Primetime Propaganda, Ben Shapiro blows that lie apart, proving over and over again that Hollywood stole the American narrative and fights relentlessly to keep it their exclusive domain. Shapiro shows beyond a shadow of a doubt, using insiders’ own words, that Hollywood liberalism is a motivated ideological force bent on shoving its politics down America’s throat.”

—Andrew Breitbart, publisher of Big Hollywood and author of Hollywood, Interrupted and Righteous Indignation