News and How to Use It
Download or Read eBook News and How to Use It PDF written by Alan Rusbridger and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Alan Rusbridger |
| Publisher | : Canongate Books |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2020-11-26 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781838851620 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1838851623 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis News and How to Use It by : Alan Rusbridger
Book excerpt: A society that isn’t sure what’s true can’t function, but increasingly we no longer seem to know who or what to believe. We’re barraged by a torrent of lies, half-truths and propaganda: how do we even identify good journalism any more? At a moment of existential crisis for the news industry, in our age of information chaos, News and How to Use It shows us how. From Bias to Snopes, from Clickbait to TL;DR, and from Fact-Checkers to the Lamestream Media, here is a definitive user’s guide for how to stay informed, tell truth from fiction and hold those in power accountable in the modern age.
