What's News?: A Critical Thinker's Guide to the Media
What's News?: A Critical Thinker's Guide to the Media
by Larry Atkins
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Book Summary
In a media landscape dominated by advocacy news networks pushing competing
points of view, how can the average person uncover the truth about any
particular issue? This book will show you how to separate the facts from the
agenda-driven spin and selective presentation often used by such news sources as
Fox and MSNBC.
The author describes the goals of advocacy journalism--i.e., journalism that
transparently advocates a biased worldview--and shows that it has been a part of
our history since the 1700s. He assesses the role of talk radio, cable news
networks, and the more recent phenomena of special-interest blogs, websites, and
citizen journalists in creating the current
ISBN-13
9781633881655
Language
English
Binding
Hard Bound
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Publishing Date
2016-08-16
What's News?: A Critical Thinker's Guide to the Media
In a media landscape dominated by advocacy news networks pushing competing
points of view, how can the average person uncover the truth about any
particular issue? This book will show you how to separate the facts from the
agenda-driven spin and selective presentation often used by such news sources as
Fox and MSNBC.
The author describes the goals of advocacy journalism--i.e., journalism that
transparently advocates a biased worldview--and shows that it has been a part of
our history since the 1700s. He assesses the role of talk radio, cable news
networks, and the more recent phenomena of special-interest blogs, websites, and
citizen journalists in creating the current