Note the Bias
By Mike Hersh, May 1, 2003
At one time, there may have been some liberal bias in the American media. No more.
Recently, the ABC News website "The Note" asked: "Could anyone deny that most Washington reporters tend to move more aggressively to bring down Republicans in trouble than Democrats in trouble?"
Of course everyone should "deny" this preposterously false if often repeated assertion. It's easily disproved by media cover ups of Republican crimes and by contrasting pro-right wing American media reports against unbiased accounts in the foreign press.
Corporate domination and over concentration of the media explains how this right wing bias operates.
Media insiders admit media ownership in too few hands lets ideologues dominate discussion in America. Reuters News Service quoted vice chairman of AOL Time Warner Ted Turner assessing FOX magnate Rupert Murdoch and the media in general:
"He's a warmonger," Turner said about Murdoch. "He promoted [the Iraq War]," Turner added, "The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much." Turner said, "There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy." See Turner Calls Rival Media Mogul Murdoch 'Warmonger', by Duncan Martell, Reuters News Service, 25 April 2003: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=industryNews&storyID=2628350
Corporate advertisers refuse to support moderate or liberal voices in the US media. Corporations dominate the media. General Electric runs NBC, CNBC and MSNBC. Right wing cult leader Sun Myung Moon owns the Washington Times media empire which includes the United Press International syndicate.
Rupert Murdoch controls FOX "news" and several "news" papers. Richard M. Scaife sponsors various "news" outlets dedicated to demonizing even moderate Democrats like Bill Clinton. The Clear Channel radio conglomerate dominates radio and sponsors right wing protests, while censoring and punishing people like the Dixie Chicks who dare voice dissent against the right wing agenda.
Anyone with more brains than bias admits the "liberal" media viciously attacks Democrats while giving Republicans free rides. The only reason anyone can think otherwise is that Republicans commit more crimes, voice more hatred, and act more hypocritically than Democrats. So even with all the help the media can give them, a few Republican flubs leak out.
Double Standard Bearers: Right Wing Bias in the Media
Does the name Gary Condit ring a bell? What about Joe Scarborough? The former, the Democrat, was hounded because a woman with whom he had sex was missing. Turns out he was innocent of wrongdoing.
The latter, the Republican, got a free ride in the media. This although his young female aide was found dead in his office with her skull fractured. Will we ever know what really happened? More on that later.
During the 1988 campaign, the media knew George Bush cheated on his wife with Jennifer Fitzgerald. For some reason, the "liberal media" refused to run the story, even after Bush lied about it. Were they as respectful of Gary Hart?
During the 1996 campaign, the media knew Bob Dole cheated on his various wives with various girls he put on the government payroll, but refused to run the story. Were they as respectful of Bill Clinton?
Newt Gingrich, Bob Barr, Dan Burton, Henry Hyde and other rabid Clinton-haters led the sexual witch hunt again our duly elected President, spending about $50 million to sniff around an act of consensual sex.
The media didn't report that these four hypocrites also lied about sex. They did cover Burton's tirades calling President Clinton a "scum bag" and accusing him of murdering Vince Foster, however, they reinforced Burton rather than taking him to task for his extremism.
As a back bencher, Gingrich attacked then-House Speaker James Wright's book deal, then cashed in with a multi-million dollar deal from Rupert Murdoch after pushing through legislation which helped Murdoch expand his media empire, making $billions in the process.
The media remained silent as Newt cheated on his 1st wife with his 2nd, and was busy cheating on wife #2 with a pretty young aide on the government payroll while he was blasting Bill Clinton for fooling around with Monica. Right wingers rest assured the right wing media will not call them on their hypocrisy. It gets worse.
Newt "Family Values" Gingrich refused to adequately support his two daughters living with his first wife. They had to beg for charity to stay fed and to keep their electricity on! Another Clinton critic and self-proclaimed "family values" champion Dan Burton fathered a child out of wedlock and refused to support him adequately.
Leading Clinton hunter Bob Barr paid for an abortion, something he calls "baby killing" when others do it, and lied under oath in a divorce case. Henry Hyde broke up a woman's family, romancing her and leaving her kids without a father in what he called a "youthful indiscretion" committed at the ripe young age of 41!
There are countless other cases of Republican hypocrisy. Lying under oath and other indiscretions - by the Hutchinsons, Helen Chenoweth, Tom DeLay, and other indignant Clinton critics guilty of everything they claimed Clinton did and more! Where is the outrage? It died a quiet death along with these news items ignored and covered up by the right wing media.
Lack of mass media attention to these Republican scandals allowed AWOL Bush and others to promise a "return of honor and dignity" to Washington and "changing the tone." Double standards in the media favoring right wing candidates and policies rob Americans of a real debate on the most critical issues of the day.
Right Wing Media Skews Debate
GHW Bush lied repeatedly about Iran Contra denying he "was not in the loop" and the media let him get away with those lies. Bush wanted us to believe he had no idea a massive arms smuggling, drug dealing, and money skimming operation in violation of US law was run out of the White House!
Taken at his word, GHW Bush was inept. However, Former Secretary of State George Shultz insists Bush was at meetings where Reagan officials planned these illegal operations.
Bush eventually admitted he was in the loop, but not until he'd taken a free ride in the media all the way to the White House in 1988. Inept, corrupt or both, Bush escaped press examination during and after his role in these crimes.
In 1992, Bush escaped criminal prosecution when he pardoned several criminals to prevent them from testifying against him - the Iran Contra criminals. Bush also pardoned a mass-murdering terrorist who blew up a plane with dozens of people on it. We didn't hear that reported. Why not? Contrast Bush's free ride against the press' vicious going away present for President Clinton: "Pardongate."
The Washington media hounded of Bill Clinton - a legally elected President They stalked Clinton for Whitewater, a land deal someone else did in which he lost money. For legally avoiding Vietnam service. For trying pot in England. For consensual sex with a young woman. For countless even more trivial accusations.
Like Father Like Son
Contrast the non-stop media Clinton hunting vs. the love-fest AWOL Bush enjoyed throughout the 2000 campaign - all the way to illegally stealing the election. The national press - so obsessed with all things Clinton - refused to report about Bush's conviction for drunk driving, and reports showing he went AWOL from the National Guard and flunked a drug test in Texas.
After endless Whitewater rehashes, the national media also ignored Bush's insider trading Harken stock and lying about it, doing favors for his father's friends (Funeralgate) and lying about that -- even under oath. After taking the White House, Bush did special favors for Enron's "Kenny Boy" Lay and lied about that too. The mass media is complicit in this cover-up.
The media accused President Clinton - the most investigated person in history - of committing several crimes, but were wrong every time. Bush apparently committed several crimes, but the media refuse to even ask him about it, much less tell America about it. The Washington press - and all other American reporters - help cover up Republican crimes and defend Republican politicians. They hound Democrats.
Against all this evidence "The Note" writers - identified as Mark Halperin, Marc Ambinder, David Chalian and Brooke Brower - complained that the "liberal media" were beating up on Sen. Rick Santorum for making bizarre and bigoted remarks. This after doing the same to Sen. Trent Lott for his racist comments. Set aside the absurd notion that the "liberal media" would really beat up on itself for liberalism, consider what "The Note" noted:
They explained "Concerned Women for America and the Family Research Council, two conservative social policy groups with the ear of the White House, have denounced the denunciations, and are calling on Santorum to repeat and extend his remarks. Defending Santorum is, to many, akin to defending traditional values."
See I'm Sorry, I Didn't Think I Was Going to Talk About Man on Dog with a United States Senator, The Note, ABC News website, April 23, 2003: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/US/TheNote_April23.html
"What Liberal Media?"
Eric Alterman wrote a book by that title, see below. Alterman makes an excellent case against the common canard and rebuts the sloppy, unsubstantiated book Bias by Bernard Goldberg which alleged liberals control the media. The argument in Bias - aside from anecdotes which were easily debunked - is very odd.
Goldberg admitted that the media tends to support increasingly right wing Republican candidates and policies over Democratic ones. However, he claimed that refusal to run stories which employed racism, sexism, gay bashing and other intolerance demonstrates left-wing media bias.
This does not represent "liberal bias" so much as the right wing Republicans' stark departure from - some might say backlash against - American progress toward mutual respect, pluralism and equal opportunity.
Media disapproval of Santorum and Lott shows only "bias" against the right wing open embrace of bigotry, elitism, and crassness. Anyone who calls this "liberal bias" is arguing that only liberals decry segregation and racism or gratuitous attacks on gays.
During the 2000 election, right wing pro-Bush bias dominated. The excellent Daily Howler website lists hundreds of examples of the media goring the Democrat while cuddling up to the Republican nominee. Studies proved most of the coverage of Al Gore falsely accused him of lying, while most coverage of Bush called him a "different kind" of Republican or otherwise just repeated Bush's campaign themes.
The media refused to cover explosive stories about Bush, while pestering Gore and making up bizarre distortions of Gore's comments to depict him as a liar. Remember the flap about Bill Clinton "dodging the draft?" The media hounded Clinton about that and rumors he tried marijuana. Contrast media assaults against Clinton and Gore against their gentle treatment of Bush.
Many reputable sources allege that Bush went AWOL from the National Guard, which is a crime. There are rumors Bush used cocaine, and evidence he failed a drug test while in the Guard, thereby losing his status as a pilot. Reports indicate Bush may have violated the law by trading Harken stock as an insider and then lied under oath on SEC notification forms to cover this up.
There is reason to suspect Bush also lied under oath to cover up crimes in the Texas "Funeralgate" scandal, after doing favors for a Bush family friend named Waltrip. If these charges are true, Bush thereby committed perjury and obstructed justice before running for president. The media led a witch hunt against Bill Clinton and Al Gore for much less. Why did the media ignore all of these stories? Clearly right wing bias played a major part.
Analysis shows that this right wing bias cost Al Gore a landslide victory because an estimated 24 million voters who said they chose a candidate based on honesty picked Bush by a huge margin. If Gore had received even a third of these "honesty" voters, he would have won by several million votes, rather than his less-than one million victory margin.
Bush lost the 2000 election nationwide and in Florida. Bush lost the popular vote and the media consortium determined that Al Gore received the most legal votes in Florida. Under Florida law and the US Constitution, Gore won the election. This even though Bush's partisans in Florida pulled out all stops cheating to win. The US Civil Rights Commission determined that Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris and other Republican operatives violated the US Voting Rights Act and Florida law but they still lost.
The media has been similarly AWOL since Bush lost the election but "won" a crooked lawsuit. Bush improperly interfered with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to benefit his patron, Kenneth Lay of Enron. This illegal quid pro quo may constitute bribery - defined as grounds for impeachment in the Constitution.
Blatant Right Wing Bias
More examples of right wing media bias assault our sensibilities everyday. Everyone knows who Gary Condit is and we all know all about the tragic death of Chandra Levy.
But who was Lori Klausutis? How did she die? And what does Joe Scarborough of MSNBC's "Scarborough Country" entertainment program know about it? Most Americans have no idea, thanks to a mass media run by right-wingers for right-wingers.
Scarborough is the extreme right-wing former member of Congress from Florida whose 28-year-old aide Lori Klausutis died under bizarre circumstances. Klausutis was found dead in Scarborough's Fort Walton Beach district office, her skull fractured. The Republican investigators brought in Dr. Michael Berkland - a medical examiner with a dubious past - who declared the mysterious death was by natural causes!
Of course while the "liberal" media was going nuts over the Gary Condit and Chandra Levy mess all through the summer 2001, they completely ignored the Klausutis affair.
A web-search on Condit Levy still reveals over 300 hits under "news," but try a web-search on Scarborough Klausutis under "news" on Google, and you get: "Your search - Scarborough Klausutis - did not match any documents."
The innocent Condit remains in disgrace, while the uninvestigated Scarborough has his own TV show - a platform he uses to call brave Americans "traitors!"
Read more about the oddities surrounding the death of Lori Klausutis: "Never Bound By the Truth", "Unwrapped" Part 1: A strange way to die, "Unwrapped" Part 2: Dr. Michael Berkland in Missouri. Thanks to Bev Conover, Online Journal Editor & Publisher: http://www.onlinejournal.com
When Scott Ritter, an expert on Iraq wandered off the Republican reservation to expose Bush Administration lies about weapons of mass destruction, the right wing media struck. They reported Ritter had been accused of trying to pick up a girl in an online chat room.
Media darling and hypocritical critic Ann Coulter is known for demanding executions to "intimidate liberals." She lamented in print that Tim McVeigh didn't blow up the New York Times building. Compare Coulter's air time to, say, Noam Chomsky's. Mass media embrace of Coulter and those like her demonstrates right wing bias in the media they condemn as liberal.
Coulter wrote attacking Ritter in FrontPageMagazine.com: "Scott Ritter, former U.N. arms inspector turned peacenik turned suspected pederast...." All without mentioning Ritter is a Bush-voting Republican. By contrast, two top Republicans convicted of lewd and illegal acts with children remain under the right wing media radar screen: Philip Giordano and Richard Delgaudio.
Philip Giordano, the former mayor of Waterbury, CT and the Republican nominee for the US Senate in 2000 was convicted of sexual activities with minors, including conspiring take them across state lines. The Republicans chose Giordano, convicted of sexually preying on grade-school girls as the Connecticut resident most worthy of representing their party and state in the US Senate.
How biased is the right wing media? How dedicated are they to protect all Republicans - even child molesting right wingers? A websearch uncovers only 20 news stories mentioning "Philip Giordano." Some of those omit all reference to his status as a convicted sex offender, his once-lofty position in the Republican Party, or both. At least one refers to a different Philip Giordano, a Democrat who is not a convicted child molester like his Republican namesake.
This is still a "live" story. Although "a federal jury convicted him in March of 17 charges" there are still pending charges against this GOP politician: "Giordano is charged in state court with six counts each of sexual assault, risk of injury to a minor and conspiracy to commit sexual assault" according to a report on a local news site.
Even the local media buried this story, which conveniently never mentioned this child molester is a Republican. They lead with the following stories ahead of what WFSB Eyewitness News called, "The very graphic and lurid details of former Waterbury Mayor Philip Giordano's alleged encounters with young girls."
"Alleged encounters?" This Republican former mayor and once-likely US Senator was convicted! See: "Details of Giordano's encounters released," WFSB Eyewitness News, May 1, 2003: http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=1227474. But hurry, as stories which expose Republican crimes and hypocrisy have a short half-life on the Internet.
All of these stories took precedence over the Giordano story in the local media:
Bush approval soars in Connecticut; Arrests, cost figures in for UConn weekend; Arrests made in Willimantic incident; Towns sues over housing of sex offender; Police arrest NY man in Meriden theater shooting; Proposal to seal divorce financial information aired at hearing; Legislative leaders to work on malpractice rates; Hartford man faces animal cruelty charges; Yale graduate student union fails; Senate passes smoking ban. See: WFSB Eyewitness News, May 1, 2003: http://www.wfsb.com/.
Four stories about arrests and criminal charges reported ahead of Giordano's sex-crime wave in his hometown media. Even stories about another sex offender and animal cruelty come first in the local media. Of course the national media remains eerily silent about Giordano. Imagine if he were a Democrat!
Is there any wonder "Bush approval soars in Connecticut" when the local and national media refuse to hold Bush, his policies or even local child molesters in Bush's party accountable?
Is this an aberration? No. Richard A. Delgaudio, a harsh Clinton critic known as a Republican "Legal Affairs" leader recently escaped national media attention despite pleading guilty to child pornography. As the Washington Post reported:
Republican activist Richard A. Delgaudio, a longtime Northern Virginia-based fundraiser for conservative causes and personalities, was sentenced to two years' probation yesterday after pleading guilty to a child pornography charge.
Delgaudio was charged with taking sexually explicit photographs of a 16-year-old girl. He paid the girl - a single mother and high school dropout - by the hour for photo shoots at the Deluxe Plaza Motel in Baltimore, according to court documents and Baltimore City Police Detective Randy Wynn, who investigated the case.
See GOP Activist Admits to Child Porn, N.Va. Fundraiser Gets Probation in Case in Baltimore, by Michael Laris, Washington Post; Page B02, April 24, 2003: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27774-2003Apr23.html.
In 1998, this Republican "Legal Affairs" leader demanded others stand on principle and excoriated President Clinton for dishonorable and illegal activities:
Legal Affairs Council President Richard Delgaudio called on Congress to stand on principle over what some consider to be popular opinion. "Standing for principles might not produce a quick fix in the short term," said Delgaudio, "but it energizes your base, stimulates a healthy and principled debate between the political parties, and in my view, is the one and only way for Republicans to maintain and enlarge their majorities in the Senate and the House."
Delgaudio has such lofty principles! Here this paragon of decency explains why the duly elected of the United States fails to live up to appropriate standards:
Delgaudio said. "The President has flouted the honor code and broken the law. He has lied under oath, cheated in his dealings with the Independent Counsel, and stolen the trust of the American people."
Delgaudio said those in Congress who vote against the impeachment process are "like the men of Ephraim, who according to Psalm 78, were 'armed with bows, [but] turned back on the day of battle'." He added, "It is time to put aside the opinion polls, the devious backroom deals and, if need be, your own short-term popularity."
See: Conservatives Urge Congress Proceed on Impeachment: http://www.conservativenews.org/indepth/archive/199811/IND19981117f.html
Delgaudio once pontificated, "Clinton is a lawbreaker and a terrible example for our Nation's young people." What was this kiddie-porn producer thinking he was doing taking porno pictures of under-aged girls? Upholding the law? Providing a great example for children? How the self righteous have fallen:
Delgaudio's attorneys issued a statement saying that their client "acknowledges the acute moral shortcomings of his conduct and he will continue intense self-examination, and professional and spiritual counseling." Bruce Fein, a prominent legal commentator helping to defend Delgaudio, also told the judge that Delgaudio plans to donate $5,000 to help "young mothers in great need."
Who is Bruce Fein? He served as the general counsel for the Center for Law and Accountability, another right wing group headquartered in Virginia like Delgaudio's Legal Affairs Council. Fein's tolerance for alleged misconduct was once much lower as shown by this editorial he wrote for the extreme right wing Washington Times:
Fein piously pontificated, "Enlightened law rewards virtue, not villainy." He smugly lectured us about, "Mr. Clinton's alleged sexual harassment of Miss Jones in a hotel room during his Arkansas governorship."
Fein never admits Jones' suit had no merit: "Furthermore, even Mr. Clinton's most ardent defenders in Clinton vs. Jones did not imagine their client would stoop to reprehensible conduct if the [Paula Jones] suit continued." See: "The Court Vindicated?" by Bruce Fein, Washington Times, July 17, 2001
How Washington Times Change!
In happier times Fein rattled off reasons President Clinton should have been impeached for his moral failings. When Fein's right wing pal Delgaudio admitted producing kiddie porn Fein's reverence for the rule of "enlightened law" and "virtue" evaporated.
This self-proclaimed Paladin of right wing virtue helped prevent the law from punishing another self-proclaimed Paladin of right wing virtue for "villainy." He rushed to help his fellow Republican legal expert, defending an admitted child pornographer!
Next time you see conservative legal expert Fein scold America about "soft on crime" liberals, remember how he helped the child pornographer escape punishment. Next time you see the "liberal" media elevate Fein to expert status, watch for any questions about Fein's moral relativism. The conclusion is clear. Right wing hypocrites dominate the media with impunity:
As part of a plea agreement on the felony charge, Baltimore Circuit Court Judge John M. Glynn placed Delgaudio on probation....
Delgaudio, 50, heads an array of conservative activist groups from offices in Fairfax County, according to filings with the Internal Revenue Service. He is listed as president of Legal Affairs Council Inc., which had $2.6 million in revenue in 2001, according to the filings. Delgaudio also is listed as chairman and director of the United States Intelligence Council and president of National Security Center Inc.
Again, see GOP Activist Admits to Child Porn, N.Va. Fundraiser Gets Probation in Case in Baltimore, by Michael Laris, Washington Post; Page B02, April 24, 2003: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27774-2003Apr23.html.
A Republican leader turned kiddie porn king gets off with probation thanks to help from moral man Fein. Where are the Concerned Women for America and the Family Research Council? Why the silence from the national media?
Reportedly Eugene Delgaudio - who runs an anti-gay lobbying group called Public Advocate and serves in office as a Loudoun County supervisor - said he did not know of brother Richard's crimes. "It doesn't sound like him," said Eugene Delgaudio.
All this hypocrisy, and not a peep from the national media!
Gingrich, Scarborough, Fein, and the brothers Delgaudio are just a few soldiers in the army of conservatives whose moral outrage and respect for the rule of law turns on a dime. Countless hypocritical Republicans mouth off while their closets full of skeletons remain closed to the American public.
Right wingers in and out of the media help each other escape scrutiny and punishment after whipping up self righteous frenzy against former President Clinton and other Democrats. Beyond issuing free passes to Republicans while bashing Democrats, the nationally media shamefully and shamelessly help right wingers deceive and mislead Americans.
Continued at Media Cheerleaders
For more in depth information about media bias, read:
The Clinton Wars by Sidney Blumenthal
Hardcover: 592 pages, Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux; 1st edition (2003).
This title will be released on May 20, 2003. You may order it now and Amazon will ship it to you when it arrives.
Book Description
An invaluable history of an extraordinary presidency, and the chronicle of a generation's political odyssey
When in 1997 Bill Clinton appointed Sidney Blumenthal as a senior advisor, the former writer was catapulted into the front lines of the Clinton wars. From his first day in the White House until long after his appearance as the only presidential aide ever to testify in an impeachment trial, Blumenthal acted in or witnessed nearly all the battles of the Clinton years. His major new book- part history, part memoir- is the first inside account we have of the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton.
The Clinton Wars begins in 1987, when Blumenthal first met Bill and Hillary Clinton. His chronicle of Clinton's first presidential campaign and first term draws on his experiences as confidant to both the President and the First Lady, and is enriched with previously unpublished revelations about both. This remarkable personal interpretation goes far in explaining the polarizing nature of Clinton's presence on the national scene.
The narrative of Clinton's second term is even more dramatic. Blumenthal takes special note of the battle that was waged within the media between the President's detractors and defenders, which he expands into a vivid picture of Washington society torn apart by warring factions. But he does not neglect the wars fought on other fronts - in Kosovo, against Congress, and for economic prosperity. His remarkable book ends with the inside story of the fight to elect Al Gore in 2000 and extend the legacy of the Clinton-Gore Administration.
Every page of this unrivaled, authoritative book, with its intimate insights into Clinton's personality and politics, attests to Blumenthal's literary skill, profound understanding of politics, and unique perspective on crucial events of our recent past. The Clinton Wars is a lasting contribution to American history.
What Liberal Media? by Eric Alterman
Hardcover: 322 pages Publisher: Basic Books; (February 4, 2003)
Amazon review: The incredulity begins with the title What Liberal Media?, journalist Eric Alterman's refutation of widely flung charges of left-wing bias, and never lets up.
The book is unlikely to make many friends among conservative media talking heads. Alterman picks apart charges made by Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, George Will, Sean Hannity, and others (even the subtitle refers to a popular book by former CBS producer Bernard Goldberg that argues a lefty slant in news coverage).
But the perspectives of less-incendiary figures, including David Broder and Howard Kurtz, are also dissected in Alterman's quest to prove that not only do the media lack a liberal slant but that quite the opposite is true.
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast
Hardcover, 224 pages, Publisher: Pluto Press; (February 15, 2002)
From Publishers Weekly: Muckraking has a long, storied tradition, and Palast is evidently proud to be part of it. In this polemical indictment of globalization and political corruption, Palast (a reporter with the BBC and London's Observer) updates the muckraking tradition with some 21st-century targets: the IMF, World Bank and WTO, plus oil treaties, energy concerns and corporate evildoers of all creeds.
Some of Palast's reports are downright shocking (if familiar). He shows, for example, how the WTO prevents cheap AIDS drugs from reaching victims in Africa and how World Bank loan policies have crippled the economies of Tanzania and other developing countries.
On the home front, he details Exxon's horrific safety record before the Valdez disaster and reveals the price-gouging by Texas power companies during the California energy crisis.
In Britain, Palast exposes the "cash for access" policies of the Blair administration, and blasts the legal system for shielding Pfizer Pharmaceuticals from lawsuits by victims who had defective Pfizer valves installed in their hearts. These are all good, important stories....
Hardcover: 240 pages, Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books;
(September 2003) Not yet released. Click to pre-order.
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