IT’S NOT NEWS, IT’S FARK
How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News
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Quoting hilarious examples, a media critic points out that, on slow news days, papers and broadcasters love to run variations on eight basic stories.
The prototypes: fear of a disaster that might happen someday, outrage over an out-of-context quote, publicity releases masquerading as news, seasonal articles, human interest fillers, formulaic follow-up stories, alarming headlines for innocuous stories, and "equal time for nutjobs." Note: some profanity.
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| Copyright | 2008 paperback edition |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Gotham Books |
| Pages | 278 |
| Grade | 9 and up |
| ISBN | 9781592403660 |
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