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

[John W.]

At 09:35 AM 1/15/2007, David Green wrote:

>This should clarify John Wason's concern: there are already positive 
>customer reviews, but the "headline" review selected is the Goldberg drive-by.
>
>DG

It does.  Thank you, David.

John W.



>[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.ifamericansknew.org/stats/cap-pris.html>http://www.ifamericansknew.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.unionplus.org/benefits/education/frame_powells.cfm>http://www.unionplus.org/benefits/education/frame_powells.cfm
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