Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Unhappiness --- and Liberalism --- to the Women of America Horror Book Review

Blowing the whistle on a job she herself did for over ten years at Ladies Home Journal as editor-in-chief, Blyth reveals the almost institutionalized selling of a liberal/do-gooders message to women through chararacterizing women themselves as victims.  Playing on women’s compassion and ability to be hooked into “uplifting” stories with a moral or happy ending, American media has convinced the most well-educated, rich and healthy audience in history that they are miserable.  She dissects why:

—liberal celebrities’ messages aren’t scrutinized and in fact presented with a halo of approval
—middle class American women have been sold stress as the new scourge of modern life
—media paints a negative picture of women’s lives today, at exactly the moment when women have more money, privlege and choices than ever before
—the club of liberal women who run magazines and television shows have an outsize and lock-step affect on what we “know” about the major issues of the day
—the incestuous relationship between celebrities and media has corrupted journalism
—magazines rarely tell stories about the majority of women whose conservative views don’t mesh with their own