Taking on the Pledge of Allegiance

This book contains interviews with many of the parties involved, including Newdow and journalists who covered the case. Ronald Bishop examines how the news media marginalized Newdow after the Ninth Circuit's ruling--acting as a "guard dog" for the government and for the ideas supposedly at the ideological heart of America--by framing the decision as an aberration, a radical act by a hopelessly liberal federal circuit court. Bishop concludes that journalists relegated Newdow to a rhetorical "protest zone"--he was heard, but from a safe distance.