Reviews for 60 minutes and the assassination of Werner Erhard

The average rating for 60 minutes and the assassination of Werner Erhard based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-06-19 00:00:00 Dawson Overbay Although the main focus of this book is on the intentional destruction of Werner Erhard’s reputation and career, it also provides a look at the sorry state of news reporting. I do not expect the news media to omit critical information or spin reported facts, but this has become accepted practice along with lazy researching by not reviewing original sources. Also the news media seem to have accepted the job of defining and maintaining social norms using ridicule and name calling much as the church did a century ago.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-10-27 00:00:00 Laura Fellows Book: 60 Minutes And The Assassination Of Werner Erhard: How America's Top Rated Television Show Was Used In An Attempt To Destroy A Man Who Was Making A Difference The allegations in the newspapers at the time and on 60 Minutes did not ring true or match what thousands of associates and participants of Erhard's programs experienced. Werner Erhard has received bad press for a long time and been accused of many things that were never proven. Dr. Self delivers the facts behind the hype and show what we all know, that it is much easier to trash someone's reputation than it is to defend it. This is a case study of how a small group of people undercut the reputation of Werner Erhard, through manipulating the media, (including the 60 Minutes video program). This book is a factual account with dates, times, names, and references of what happened. This book does a lot to set the record straight about a mountain of misinformation about Werner Erhard. It also helps shed light on the process by which our national scandals take shape. It is interesting to note that 60 Minutes and CBS themselves do not by their original 1991 video segment about Werner Erhard. In fact it was filled with so many "factual discrepancies" that they removed it from their archives.