[Peace-discuss] Re: Denigrating Carter's Book

[David Green]

This should clarify John Wason's concern: there are already positive customer reviews, but the "headline" review selected is the Goldberg drive-by.
   
  DG
   
  [Excerpt from Qumsiyeh's [HumanRights] Amazon.com, wheels of justice, 
and "Little Mosque on the Prairie" ; 1/14/07]

Follow-up to earlier action alert about Amazon's poor treatment of 
Carter's book: Thanks to the hundreds of you who wrote and those who 
copied me on the letters to Amazon. Other recipients of my email said 
they could not find the negative Washington Post/Goldberg review 
displayed prominently in the front. But you can go to Amazon.com and 
search Jimmy Carter and it will take you to its page. There you would 
actually have to scroll through it to get to customer reviews which I 
agree were good. Other readers said that Amazon has allowed good 
customer reviews and so it is OK if they included Goldberg's malicious 
review. But this is simply not how Amazon treats other books. In fact 
to my knowledge there is simply no book in Amazon's top 100 sellers 
that is treated like Carter's (with a negative long review before 
customer reviews). Take for example Thomas Friedman's stupid book in 
defense of corporate globalization "The World is Flat" and see how it 
is displayed with no negative editorial reviews. In fact, Amazon sells 
Hitler's Mein Kempf, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and other 
books like that without treating them in as shabby a way they treated 
Carter's book (ie. no lengthy 1600 word negative reviews in the section 
for editorial reviews)! BTW, the reviewer (Goldberg) was a guard at the 
infamous Ketziot prison (in this video about political prisoners in 
Israeli jails their is quite a chilling anecdote about Ketziot: 
"Captured Prisoners," 
http://www.ifameric ansknew.org/ stats/cap- pris.html). Anyway I know I 
will buy my future books at local booksellers and when I have to do it 
over the internet, I will use the unionized bookstore Powells. If you 
enter through the union portal, a percent supports the union there:
http://www.unionplu s.org/benefits/ education/ frame_powells. cfm
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