The Washington Post’s Book World section included a brief review of the MRC book Whitewash on Sunday. Reviewer Alan Cooperman, who before joining the book section recently was a Post reporter on the religion-and-politics beat, reviewed four books "full of honest venom and outright partisanship." The other three were all anti-Republican. Here’s Cooperman’s review, in its entirety:

This book is a two-fer, blasting away both at Hillary Clinton and at "liberal reporters -- and, truth be told, female liberal reporters especially" for their coverage of her. "It is truly shocking to see how blatantly the media have shilled for Hillary," write Bozell and Graham, who run the Media Research Center, a group dedicated to "documenting the news media's left-wing bias." Whitewash does not offer any new allegations, but it does challenge the reporting on all the old ones. The book groans, for example, that "the Big Three networks gave both Watergate and Iran-Contra more than three times the attention they gave Whitewater." And it says the allegation that Bill Clinton used Arkansas troopers to arrange sexual trysts attracted "only" 22 evening news stories in the first 12 days after the story broke. Readers can decide whether those figures are high, low or about right, though it's abundantly clear where Whitewash comes down.

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That’s a fair summary, since we do hope to be abundantly clear that we think the media are blatant Hillary shills. The other three books featured were The Conscience of a Liberal by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, The Bulldozer and the Big Tent by old Sixties radical Todd Gitlin, and McCain: The Myth of a Maverick by Matt Welch, assistant editor of the Los Angeles Times editorial pages.

The biggest "error" here is any implication that I help "run" the MRC with Brent Bozell, and I also work under the direction of Brent Baker, our 20-year News Analysis Division chief and all-things-media guru.

—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.